{"id":966,"date":"2022-04-12T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T04:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/?p=966"},"modified":"2022-07-11T14:48:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T21:48:21","slug":"understanding-what-happened-in-bucha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/966","title":{"rendered":"Understanding what happened in Bucha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/two-articles-to-read-together\">flagged<\/a> articles from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/europe\/a-closer-look-at-the-russian-atrocities-in-bucha-do-you-want-to-die-quickly-or-slowly-a-513b1e84-0e3a-42e9-bf17-d90e0ef9b119\">Der Spiegel<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/russian-invasion-war-crimes-horrors-of-ukraines-bucha-laid-bare-on-yablunska-street-11649365202\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> that together paint a grim picture of how the Russian occupation of Bucha, Ukraine started as a simple occupation but quickly devolved into hellish war crimes against the civilian population. Sounds like a combination of an undisciplined occupying force that became increasingly paranoid as they started taking casualties, and direct orders from above to purge politicians and other Ukrainian nationalists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has flagged articles from Der Spiegel and the Wall Street Journal that together paint a grim picture of how the Russian occupation of Bucha, Ukraine started as a simple occupation but quickly devolved into hellish war crimes against the civilian population. 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