| − | ''[[The New York Times]]'' was in Bucha on April 2, 2022 and did not report a massacre.<ref>[https://archive.ph/oXMS5 Russia in Broad Retreat From Kyiv, Seeking to Regroup From Battering], By Andrew E. Kramer and Neil MacFarquhar, ''The New York Times'', April 2, 2022.</ref> Instead, the ''Times'' confirmed the Russian withdrawal was completed two days after the mayor of Bucha said it was, and that the Russians left “behind them dead soldiers and burned vehicles, according to witnesses, Ukrainian officials, satellite images and military analysts.” The ''Times'' said reporters found the bodies of six civilians. “It was unclear under what circumstances they had died, but the discarded packaging of a Russian military ration was lying beside one man who had been shot in the head,” the paper said. In Bucha, the ''Times'' was close to the [[neo-Nazi]] [[Azov Battalion]], whose soldiers appear in the newspaper’s photographs. The ''Times'' suggests that Azov Nazis may be responsible for the killings: | + | ''[[The New York Times]]'' was in Bucha on April 2, 2022 and reported that "some of the dead wearing civilian clothes appeared to have been bound and executed."<ref>[https://archive.ph/oXMS5 Russia in Broad Retreat From Kyiv, Seeking to Regroup From Battering], By Andrew E. Kramer and Neil MacFarquhar, ''The New York Times'', April 2, 2022.</ref> Instead, the ''Times'' confirmed the Russian withdrawal was completed two days after the mayor of Bucha said it was, and that the Russians left “behind them dead soldiers and burned vehicles, according to witnesses, Ukrainian officials, satellite images and military analysts.” The ''Times'' said reporters found the bodies of six civilians. “It was unclear under what circumstances they had died, but the discarded packaging of a Russian military ration was lying beside one man who had been shot in the head,” the paper said. In Bucha, the ''Times'' was close to the [[neo-Nazi]] [[Azov Battalion]], whose soldiers appear in the newspaper’s photographs. The ''Times'' suggests that Azov Nazis may be responsible for the killings: |
| | [[File:SBU actions in Bucha April 2, 2022.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[SBU]] special forces with Cyrillic '''СБУ''' acronym brutalizing civilians, April 2, 2022.<ref>https://twitter.com/NG_Strategy/status/1511921181259022343</ref>]] | | [[File:SBU actions in Bucha April 2, 2022.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[SBU]] special forces with Cyrillic '''СБУ''' acronym brutalizing civilians, April 2, 2022.<ref>https://twitter.com/NG_Strategy/status/1511921181259022343</ref>]] |
| | {{quotebox-float|“Something very interesting then happens on [Saturday] 2 April, hours before a massacre is brought to the attention of the national and international media. The US and EU-funded Gorshenin Institute online [Ukrainian language] site Left Bank announced that: | | {{quotebox-float|“Something very interesting then happens on [Saturday] 2 April, hours before a massacre is brought to the attention of the national and international media. The US and EU-funded Gorshenin Institute online [Ukrainian language] site Left Bank announced that: |