War in Ukraine – Soldier’s Calling Home:

A year has passed since the war broke out in Ukraine. One of the things that shocked Western leaders and people around the world was the revelation of possible war crimes in the city of Bucha in Ukraine.

Many Russian soldiers ended up here after failing in what was Russia’s initial goal, which was to capture the capital, Kiev.

Russian forces withdrew from the city in early April. And again, the streets were strewn with tortured and murdered Ukrainians.

– immediately shot

The news agency wrote that many of the Russian soldiers who came to Bucha were not willing to take part in the war. APwhich obtained access to several recordings of phone calls from Russian soldiers in Bucha since March last year.

The news agency wrote that the footage shows how unprepared the young soldiers are for war. Many soldiers joined the army because they needed money.

They thought they would be welcome.

One of the soldiers sent to Bucha was 19-year-old Leonid. He had bad finances and needed money.

In a conversation with his mother in March, he seemed to sympathize with a young Ukrainian soldier killed by his fellow soldiers.

– They were lying there, they were only 18 or 19 years old. Am I different from them? In conversation, Leonid said: No, I’m not.

– We won. We are crazy enough

Civilians were told to flee or take refuge in basements. Leonid said that those who were abroad could not be real civilians.

– stopped a little boy, they took his phone. He had all the information about us in messages on Telegram – where we bombed, how many we were and how many tanks we had, Leonid said in the conversation, adding:

He was shot on the spot. He was 17 years old.

Another case is of an 18-year-old who was first shot in the calf and then had his ear cut off.

– We didn’t imprison them. We killed everyone, said Leonid.

He also told the mother that they had stolen from the dead – food, blankets, pillows, knives and forks.

In May he returned to Russia. To the Associated Press, the mother said that Leonid had never had contact with civilians in Ukraine, and that the war had not changed his son after that.

Complete confusion after the “execution video”

Attention-grabbing details: – Unusual

– fundamentally changed

Retired First Lieutenant Arne Bord-Dalhough says the discoveries made in Potsja have influenced the world’s view of Russia.

– There is no doubt that butcha and other war crimes fundamentally completely changed Russia’s point of view. There were practically no peace treaty negotiations after that. This has strengthened the position of the West, Dahlhough tells Dagbladet.

After Batsha was released, shocking details of the execution of civilians emerged. Many of the dead who were found had been tortured, shot at close range with their hands tied behind their backs.

In one story, a group of at least eight men were led across a road, while a soldier followed behind them with his weapon raised. These men wrote they must have been executed afterwards The New York Times.

Avisa wrote afterwards that the videos were the clearest evidence to date that Russian forces had carried out executions and war crimes in Bucha.

The United Nations established that at least 50 civilians were routinely executed by Russian forces in Bucha. According to Ukrainian authorities, the number was at least 450.

Russia has long denied that civilians were killed in Bucha, and has claimed that the photos were manipulated. However, a number of journalists entered the city shortly after its liberation, and satellite images revealed, among other things, that corpses were lying in the streets when Russia was in control of the city.