The West (UK) have blocked a Security Council meeting.
Russians are still insisting on one.
I was 50:50 'wait and see' before, now I'm 80:20 the Buccha story is RUBBISH. No one who knows their side is telling the truth will ever block an independent investigation,
especially, especially when they're in control of the site of evidence. This smells too much like one Kenyan institution refusing to open one crucial server at some point. And the speed with which the Russian have moved to this investigation route concerning a town they no longer control lends even more credence to their denials.
Until they allow this quickly enough while the scenes are least disturbed, I'll maintain SERIOUS cynicism about Ukrainian/Western claims about war crimes in Buccha. Especially when there's that video of Ukrainians deliberately shooting civilians for not wearing the band that signals support for Ukrainians (blue) over Russians (White).
By the way, the corpses in the Buccha videos had the Russian (White) one. They could very well have been executed after Ukrainians took over the town on 1st April for perceived treason. We don't know! And without actual investigations, treating this with maximum skepticism. It is very naive to go with one side of the story in a war. There's an information war going on alongside the actual war and one side has all the microphones!
And anyone who thinks Ukrainians are above war crimes needs to read about what they've been doing to Eastern Ukraine for 8 consecutive years. Iyo tu. They are no angels, they've even threatened Zelensky with death by hanging, those Nazi units, if he makes a peace deal they dislike.
Their claims should be treated with EXACTLY the amount of skepticism one treats Russia. And one should remember, Russia has ZERO to gain from committing a war crime and leaving all the evidence for the world to gawk at, whereas Ukraine has LOTS to gain by riling up the West into more involvement in the war . . . Just like was the case in Syria 2013.
