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To: Les H who wrote (33723)	10/15/2022 10:14:11 PM
From: Les H	2 Recommendations Recommended By Ben Smith Hoa Hao Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 48868

Russia is giving soldiers Viagra to rape Ukrainians: UN official nypost.com When a country does too much propaganda, it become ridiculous like the one above, the recent stories in the Washington Post and European press about tanks running on dishwasher parts, and the story in the New York Times about missiles being inaccurate because there were too few civilian losses.

To: Les H who wrote (33723)	10/16/2022 2:37:41 AM
From: Jeff Hayden	1 Recommendation Recommended By John Koligman Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 48868

There were no battles around Kiev or N. Ukraine that forced Russia to withdraw its forces. That's actually false. There was significant fighting in March and April around Kiev. However the Russians did pull out fast from the surrounds of Kiev. There were several towns around Kiev in which the Russians had exercised their murdering ways. - Bucha comes to mind. From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org According to The Times and The Washington Post, eighteen mutilated bodies of murdered men, women and children were found in a basement. The bodies showed evidence of torture; cut-off ears and teeth pulled out. Corpses of other killed civilians were left in the road, allegedly some of them booby-trapped with explosives by Russian soldiers as decoys before they retreated. [77] [78] Residents and the town mayor confirmed that the victims had been killed by Russian troops. Many of the victims appeared to have been going about their daily routines, walking dogs, or carrying shopping bags. The bodies were whole, indicating that they had been shot, rather than killed by explosive munitions. [79] Footage showed civilians dead, with their hands bound. Other footage showed a dead man, next to his bicycle. Pets and other animals had been shot. [80] Evidence appeared to indicate that the Russians had singled out Ukrainian civilian men and killed them in an organised fashion, with many of their bodies in particular found dead with their hands tied behind their backs. [81] On 2 April, an AFP reporter stated he had seen at least twenty bodies of civilians lying in the streets of Bucha, with two of the bodies having tied hands, implying a summary execution. Fedoruk said that these individuals had all been shot in the back of the head. [82] Residents, talking to Human Rights Watch following the retreat of the Russian forces, described the treatment of people in the town during the short occupation: Russian soldiers went door to door, questioning people, destroying their possessions, and looting their clothes to wear them themselves. [83] Civilians were fired upon when leaving their homes for food and water, and would be ordered back into their homes by occupying Russian troops, despite a lack of basic necessities such as water and heat due to destruction of local infrastructure. [83] Snipers fired upon civilians. Russian armed vehicles would randomly fire into buildings in the town. Russian troops refused medical aid to civilians they injured. A mass grave was dug for local victims, and the occupying troops carried out extrajudicial executions. [83] CNN, [84] the BBC, and Bild [85] have released video documentations of numerous dead bodies of civilians lying in the streets and backyards in Bucha, some of them with tied arms or legs. Atrocities in Bucha, including at least one case of summary execution, was also documented by the independent rights group Human Rights Watch. [86] In any case, the only reason Russia might want to call off the war is because they made a very big mistake thinking Ukraine would just roll over. Russia foolishly thought they were a powerful nation, but they've been pulling the wool over the eyes of the world for many years. Now we know.