Ukraine War Day #40 – More Ukrainian Fake Atrocities

Unfortunately, one downside of concocting clever plans, is that they often leave gullible innocents in the lurch. In this case, allowing the Ukrainian army to move back into towns which were maybe happier without them there. Oh, I’m not saying these people were pro-Russian. This is part of the “Orange-voting” Kiev area, where majority of population are loyal to Ukraine and don’t want to be occupied by Russia. Still, the first concern of ordinary people (not political fanatics) is to survive another day. Which is why many residents hung white flags out on their houses as the Russian troops approached. The white flags being a common code for “Civilians live here.”

I should mention, in this regard, before getting to the alleged Russian atrocity, the actual atrocity committed by the Ukrainian troops before re-entering the town: They shelled it with Grads. There was no reason to shell the town, since the Russians had already left. There are two working theories for why they did: (1) they wanted to be sure the Russians were really gone; or (2) they wanted to punish the residents for hanging out white flags. Since Truth is a Democracy, you can pick your favorite theory.

Russians, for their part, swear on a stack of bibles they didn’t touch a hair on anybody’s head, neither coming nor going. They didn’t set up a new administration nor switch the local currency to rubles (as they have done in areas they truly do intend to annex, like Kherson, for example!) They stayed for a spell, were polite (or so they claim), and then left just as politely on March 30. The next day, March 31, the town’s Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk appeared in a Zoom Town Meeting, reassuring the local residents that “there are no Russian troops left in the town.” He forgot to mention, at that time, about the horrible atrocity which the Russians had allegedly done. (Either it wasn’t important, or he didn’t know about it, or it hadn’t been staged yet.) I (yalensis) personally knew about this “atrocity” one day before it hit the Russian mainstream media. Not because I have Nostradamic super powers, but because I follow (whenever I have time) Shariy’s livestream chatroom on youtube. Wherein, if you know how to separate wheat from chaff, you can learn some interesting things before they hit the regular media.

So, this was sometime on April 2 (I don’t remember the exact time), somebody in Shariy’s chat emailed him a video clip of the atrocity, and Shariy held his iPhone up to his own webcam so people could watch: As a car drove down the street in Bucha, its front-view webcam showed some “things” piled up on the street, at regular intervals. Having poor eyesight, I didn’t even know what I was looking at, so I thought maybe it was garbage bags. Then it was explained that these were corpses, lying there in the road, at even intervals, like chess pieces on a board, lying on their stomachs, with their hands tied behind their backs. Whereupon I had to rush to my bathroom and vomit.

But a bunch of people in the chat immediately started asking the right questions: Why didn’t the car stop and try to help those people? Maybe some of them still had a pulse. Why were the bodies spread out so evenly? Clearly not the result of an explosion, more obviously an execution.

My mind immediately jumped to the most horrible: That the Ukrainian Nazis had punished these people, maybe accusing them of collaborating with, or being too friendly to, the Russians, during the one-month sojourn of the latter.

Hence, I was relieved the following day, April 3, when the news hit Russian mainstream media, and it was revealed that the whole thing was a staged hoax. So, nobody actually died, whew!

Zombie Apocalypse?

Debunking this staged event, Russian media pointed out, here are couple of links, this one and this one, that, even aside from the fact that Hiz Honor the Mayor didn’t mention this egregious atrocity until a few days later; that the video itself proves a corpse is not necessarily a corpse. Russian bloggers took the car-cam video apart, frame by frame, and saw that one of the “corpses” miraculously came back to life after the car had passed by (you only get a glimpse in the right side-rear mirror, the corpse moves and sits up, thinking it’s out of camera view now).

Leaving only one conclusion to be drawn: The Zombie Plague has infected the Ukrainian not-so-grateful Dead. Maybe one of the products of those Pentagon bioweapons labs that were built on Ukrainian soil. This theory leads to the corollary supposition: As soon as that webcam car had left the street, all the Zombies jumped to their feet and started dancing to Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Because that’s what Zombies do.

We also have this timely interview from former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter. Wherein which he demands, quite reasonably, that the Ukrainian side provide, for each “corpse” the minimum amount of information: Time of Death. Cause of Death. Place of Death. I would have added: “Name and ID of vic.” That seems kind of important too. One of the Russian commenters to the Ritter piece, said it quite nicely, using a literary allusion: “On the stage we see Lensky killed in a duel. But then he returns later for a bow, and he is alive again.”