The Ukraine-Russia-USA Conflict, Part 8: Conclusive Evidence for a Mariupol Theatre and a Bucha False Flag Attack
In part 6 I discussed war propaganda and false flag attacks in a more general sense but already with an eye towards Ukraine and the possibility of them happening there. In this part, I will lay out the evidence for two false flag attacks that were most likely committed by Ukrainians with the aid of the West: The Mariupol theatre attack on March 16 and, more importantly, the Bucha massacre on April 2 in which Ukrainian neonazis once again murdered Ukrainian civilians in order to pin the blame on Russia. [see part 1 for sections 1 & 2; part 2 for sections 3 & 4; part 3 for section 5; part 4 for section 6; part 5 for section 7, part 6 for section 8; part 7 for section 9] WARNING: GRAPHIC FOOTAGE of BLOOD, TORTURE and DEATH in section 10.1 and more so 10.3.
10.1 Ukrainian Politicians Make False Flaggy Comments
I will begin by noting that Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already made ‘false flaggy’ and highly cynical comments about the civilians which Ukraine itself killed in eastern Donetsk:
More cynicism: “Ukraine’s highest value” is supposedly “people” (as in “people which aren’t ethnic Russians in Ukraine”)
The 2014 documentary Donbass — Chronicle of Genocide tells a rather different story, however, and from the perspective of affected civilians:
Similar ‘false flaggy’ and hatemongering comments were made by the Ukrainian member of parliament and supposed human rights advocate Lesia Vasylenko:
10.2 Evidence for a March 16, 2022, Mariupol Theatre False Flag Operation
Let us now look into reports about and evidence for possible to likely Ukrainian false flag operations, such as the following Max Blumenthal report about the Mariupol theatre event:
In March 16, the Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine, was bombed. The building reportedly housed scores of civilians at the time. Maxar satellite images showed the word “CHILDREN” written in Russian in large letters on the pavement outside. The incident occurred within hours of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s virtual address to Congress, where he asked again for the United States to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
Western and Ukrainian observers immediately assumed the worst. “Russian forces ‘purposefully destroyed’ theatre in Mariupol where civilians were taking shelter, Ukrainian officials say,” read a notification pushed out by Twitter. “Massive Russian attack on the Drama Theater where hundreds of innocent civilians were hiding,” tweeted Ukrainian politician Dmytro Kuleba. “Russians could not have not known this was a civilian shelter.” It seemed a clear-cut case of Muscovite barbarism in a savage war.
But days before the bombing, local reports warned that Ukrainian forces, specifically the Azov Battalion, were planning a false flag operation at the theater. Civilians would be endangered or even killed before the world’s watching eyes.
While it’s difficult to know what’s true in this conflict, numerous accounts paint the same picture: civilians being endangered, even killed, by Ukrainian forces, including Azov, in Mariupol who won’t allow them to move through humanitarian corridors.
Take note, for instance, of the suspicious timing: Why would Russians generate bad press for themselves and incentivize military aid for Ukraine *only hours* after the Zelensky speech in front of Congress? Would it not, as per the timelessly true consideration of cui bono (who profits), make much more sense for Ukrainian extremists to commit a false flag attack to try to make Russia and Putin look bad and to try to procure military aid and potentially a NATO-enforced no-fly zone that way?
There was after all in-advance evidence for that version of events, and it is also a version of events that makes much more sense when you factor in the motivations of the Russian military and Ukrainian extremists who are already understood to use civilians as human shields (‘so might as well sacrifice them in a false flag attack’). As such, a Mariupol theatre false flag attack by the Ukrainian extremists is the far more likely possibility.
Former Professor Tim Anderson, fired for not being an Orwellian goodthinker, outlined the most likely turn of events as follows:
This Mariupol resident by the name of Sergey Kostyuchenko reported from Torgovaya Street, Mariupol…
…that Ukrainian soldiers were firing heavily from “next to the drama theater”, thereby (intentionally) drawing Russian fire to it, with Russians barely returning fire:
10.3 Evidence for a Bucha April 2, 2022, False Flag Operation
We already know with certainty that the West routinely commits false flag operations. We furthermore have fairly good evidence for a Western-Ukrainian false flag operation having been carried out on March 16 in the Mariupol theatre or, complementarily, reasonable doubts about the official version of events as presented by the Ukraine and the West. It is therefore not unreasonable to consider if something like that also transpired in Bu(t)cha, a small town to the northwest of Kiev as a sort of very evil April 1st or rather 2nd joke.
Among those who suggest that is Illya Kiva, a Ukrainian politician and parliamentarian who made a curious switch from the anti-Russian Right Sector (2014–2015) to the leader of the pro-Russian Socialist Party of Ukraine (2017–2019) and then the Opposition Platform — For Life (2019–2022), and while he might have a pro-Russian bias, it is nevertheless something that at least needs to be considered and not just dismissed, for it is a realistic possibility:
The former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter concurs:
And all the usual signs of a Western false flag operation are there. This includes consent-manufacturing Western mainstream media immediately jumping to the conclusion that just so happens to be in line with Western propaganda about evil, evil Saddam, Assad, Putin, etc.:
So case closed before the investigation has even begun. Nothing to see here beyond what we tell you that you must see:
Wittgenstein’s distinction between “seeing x” and “seeing x as y” is also useful here: The easily fooled and not so knowledgeable public will not be able to see the above as anything but evidence of Russian war crimes . More knowledgeable and not so easily fooled people, however, will see the above first and foremost as Western mainstream media engaging in their usual war propaganda and as the usual playbook for manufacturing consent once again being applied.
Once again, it is the Pentagon that shows far greater restraint and responsibility than warmongering Western mainstream media:
And the closer you look at the Western propaganda narrative, the more it collapses, just like previous false Western propaganda narratives.
10.3.1 Evidence No1: Habitual Western liars do not want to see Bucha properly investigated
See the earlier section 7.2 for the “torture video” which Britain and Ukraine certainly also does want to be investigated by the UN:
Do you notice the contradiction here as well as the phony and transparent virtue signalling? On the one hand, the U.S. Mission to the OSCE claim they want a “through investigation” into Bucha (and some other places; note the heart-rending imagery that is supposed to cloud your judgment):
On the other hand, it is a foregone conclusion for them that only Russia can be guilty and that Ukraine and Azov and other far right ultranationalists must be innocent. This is one of the hallmarks of their usual propaganda operations — and also methodological insanity:
Same thing with the EU:
10.3.2 Evidence No2: Time lines are not adding up
According to satellite imagery presented in the NYT, the (supposed) corpses in the streets of Bucha were supposedly already lying around “for weeks.” This would place them and the murders in the second half of March where the Russians still had control of Bucha.
A critical and skeptical question in the age of mobile phones with cameras consequently is 2a) why imagery of these corpses has not reached us much earlier then and just like in other conflicts (We could perhaps also ask 2b) why Bucha was not discussed in British-Ukrainian conversations that were supposedly intercepted by Russian intelligence, but that is less reliable evidence):
Once again, even this overly technical approach follows the usual playbook of Western propaganda:
Think, especially, of all the satellite imagery of alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) which were strangely enough never found:
Third and as another more reliable time disparity, we also have to consider 2c) “why the mayor of Bucha never referenced alleged Russian atrocities in his public statement after Russia left [the] area” and why all of that was only ‘discovered’ after the human right violators, war criminals and murderers of Ukrainian civilians from the Azov Battalion arrived:
Here we have that mayor of Bucha, Anatoliy Fedoruk from the Party of Regions, stating that Russian troops had left Bucha by March 31:
This general date of departure or retreat was also given by high-ranking Russian officials.
10.3.3 Evidence No3: The blue (pro-Ukrainian) and white (pro-Russian) armbands
Here we then have video footage, apparently from April 2, where we can hear pro-Ukrainian forces talking about shooting anyone without a blue armband:
Some additional information on that footage from this article:
Satellite photos allow this video to be located as having been filmed in Vokzalnaya Street where a column of Russian equipment was destroyed on 27 February 2022 (equipment seen in the video).
The mistreatment of those suspected of collaborating with Russian forces can be seen in this video filmed by the Ukrainians themselves. The arrested men are severely beaten by Ukrainian soldiers, including in the head.
As a result, the hypothesis of a massacre of civilians in Bucha who had received aid from Russian forces by Ukrainian armed forces is reinforced. Indeed, several of the bodies visible in the photos are located near Russian military rations, which the civilians must have obtained as humanitarian aid from Russia.
Take note of the blue armband and the smiley faces of “Botsman”/Sergey Korotkih and the other guy since there are no corpses lying around yet on April 2:
Somewhat later that day, the Ukrainian mass murder of civilians who were suspected of being “saboteurs and collaborators with Russian troops” — or simply of anyone without a blue armband — appears to have happened (again take note of the blue armbands of Ukrainian forces):
Perhaps also once again take note of how Ukrainian neonazis smear their victims in blue (see part 5):
April 2 postings on social media confirm that this day — a solid two to three days after Russian troops had withdrawn — is when the killings of civilians most likely happened. Take note how none of the corpses shown have blue armbands…
…whereas some of corpses shown have white armbands which signifies allegiance to Russia:
Those who would soon be executed and falsely paraded to the world as victims of alleged Russian aggression: Yup, white armbands:
The car of a family that got murdered by Ukrainians: yup, white band (note the blue band on the reporter/propagandist):
By contrast, here you can see (pro-)Russian troops evacuating people with white armbands in a video that was posted by someone who also understands the significance of these colors:
Confirmation that white band means pro-Russian:
I first began to understand the potentially huge significance of this piece of evidence when I watched the video of war reporter Patrick Lancaster who was moving around with pro-Russian military from Donetsk and who — surprise, surprise — was wearing white (arm)bands to protect himself from fire by Russian forces (after that, things began to fall into place in an obvious pattern):
So a) Russians would not shoot on white, whereas Ukrainians would not shoot on blue since those colors signify allegiance to the respective factions. Both b) Russians and Ukrainians might shoot at un-colored/-banded individuals, and they would c) almost certainly shoot at individuals wearing the opposite color/band.
The fact that apparently only un-banded or white-banded victims were seen on the video footage can therefore essentially only be interpreted that all these people were killed by blue-wearing Ukrainian forces and not by white-wearing Russian forces!
The funny thing in all of that: People saw the evidence, but they could not see it as the evidence that it actually is — which is incriminating evidence against the Ukrainians. I hope they can now see that x as that y.
10.3.4 Evidence No4: The corpses
The mass graves with alleged victims of Russia are consequently most likely largely filled with victims of Ukrainian neonazis. Independent autopsies should be able to determine their time of death and hence by whom they were killed:
If corpses with blue tape around the head are found in Bucha, they were likely killed by Ukrainians:
There are also ugly torture videos of people who likely got murdered by Ukrainians (I will only show some):
Again note how the state of decomposition when compared with the date of the photo gives away Ukrainians and not Russians as the likely murderers:
But there is also another obvious explanation if corpses from the second half of March are found (i.e. the time when Russian’s controlled the area), and that is “Ukrainian shelling”:
From this article on possible March 19–23 killings:
But the biggest problem is that if these people were killed on 19 March 2022, this would mean that the bodies were left outside for a fortnight before being discovered! Unless they are kept in a cold room (at a temperature of 2 to 4°C, which slows down the process but does not stop it), the body will start to putrefy two to three days after death.
However, from 20 March onwards, temperatures rise to 16°C on 22 and 23 March. The weather was also sunny, which meant that it was even hotter on the dark asphalt where the bodies lay. This means that in a fortnight the bodies should be well advanced in their putrefaction.
The bodies should be swollen with gases from the putrefaction of the internal organs, and black-red putrefaction fluid should have escaped from the bodies which would give off a disgusting smell (I attended an exhumation of bodies in the summer of 2016, and I can assure you that even 20 m away from the guys digging the smell was to be vomited).
Moreover, maggots, stray dogs, rats, and scavengers would have had ample time to devour some of the body parts. But this is not the case, these bodies are intact. No inhabitant of the street where these people were killed would have left the bodies there for a fortnight. Even under the bombardment, the civilians of Mariupol buried their dead within days of their death because the smell was so horrible.
But in the end, we will most likely never see a proper and independent investigation which the Russians are rightfully demanding since the EU delegation, for instance, will just go there to help Ukrainians “glue that thing,” to put it like Victoria Nuland in 2014. Critical evidence will be lost/destroyed/covered up forever. To let Aaron Maté summarize that (9:37-10:01):
“Those bodies should be immediately collected by independent investigators who are actually in Ukraine right now from the International Criminal Court so you can determine when they were killed. […] By the way, an area of expertise that was deliberately shunned in the OPCW’s Douma investigation, because they did not want to find out when the victims there were actually killed.”
10.3.5 Evidence No5: The Zelensky ‘adviser’ Oleksiy Arestovych
Even though the following should no longer be necessary in terms of analyzing the evidence, it needs to be considered what Ukrainian key characters and shadowy players do the ‘discovery’ and ‘reporting’ of the Bucha massacre and the respective Orwellian twisting of the truth. As reported by this April 5 Yahoo article:
In Bucha, 280 people were buried in mass graves, according to Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who visited the city Monday.
And lo and behold, is that Oleksiy Arestovych not the same person who for instance could be seen and heard praising ISIS for their “wise” and “very correct” strategy and who relativized away their “terrorism, medieval cruelty, executions and burning people, cutting heads, etc. etc.” since their “network structure” is so amazing in his eyes?
Is perhaps due to influences such as Arestovych that people have compared public punishment in Ukraine with that of ISIS? (see part 5)
Is it possible that someone like Arestovych who Wikipedia describes as “an organizer of psychological seminars and trainings and a charity fund for psychological support to the military” might be yet another insane NatSec goon who is involved in military and violent solutions and respective brainwashing? He is after all also
“a graduate of the Odessa Military Academy, he has a diploma of military translator. According to data that need further confirmation, from 1994 to 2005 he worked in the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and is a reserve major.”
Is it possible that someone with that background should most definitely not be “a speaker of the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine” since his contributions will most likely lead to conflict and war and not to peace just like contributions from US NatSec goons?
Is it possible that the NatSec goon Arestovych might have been involved in the planning or execution of the Bucha false flag operation?
Is it possible that he might be less of an advisor for and maybe more like a handler of the puppet president Zelensky?
Oh, and looky here: Isn’t that the same Arestovych who got mad at one Anton G-/Herashchenko since Gerashchenko posted footage or evidence that would undermine the bullshit propaganda story that psychopathic NatSec goons like Arestovych were about to plant after they were done murdering hundreds of people?
I do not know what more evidence you could possibly need to arrive at the now all but certain conclusion that Ukrainian neonazis and key players among them committed a false flag operation and mass murder of civilians in Bucha which they then pinned on Russia — actions that could potentially lead to WW3. But yeah: “Slava Ukraini! Heroiam slava!” — or whatever. Just give more weapons to the Ukrainian neonazis and the warmongering puppet president Zelensky and I am sure that things will turn out just fine.
Conclusion
Together with the other evidence, especially the white/blue band evidence is fairly conclusive evidence that the Ukrainian neonazi filth committed yet another false flag attack against Ukrainian civilians — a genuine act of atrocity that was then presented as a foto- and video-op to some gullible or in-on-the-act Western ‘journalists’ and politicians in the hopes of generating support for their cause.
Contrary to Hitler who only had a few people and not his own people killed in the Gleiwitz incident, the Ukrainians killed many more and their own people in their false flag operation — something which actually does make them “worse than Hitler” (a more recent accusation against Putin).
I should also say that it would take a special kind of ignorance to have a concept of Ukrainian color revolutions and to not see the signifiance of the colored bands in determining who did what.
And in case you are thinking “But what about Russians shelling a Mariupol maternity hospital” — evidence has recently emergerd that this is most likely also Western-Ukrainian propagandistic bullshit (perhaps Ukrainian troops were also stationed there to provoke an attack which could then be used propagandistically):
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EDIT (April 15, 2022): After concluding this article, more evidence emerged that the retreating Ukrainian forces committed war crimes against Ukrainian civilians in Mariupol. War reporter Patrick Lancaster interviewed one Olga Vladimirovna who worked in the traumatology department of a Mariupol hospital that was operational until March 28 according to her testimony:
The hospital was shelled (see later pictures), and according to Olga V., it was shelled by Ukrainian/Azov forces and from the Azovstal steel plant. This is consistent with Russian forces attacking Azovstal as early as March 19 as well as consistent with more recent reports of Russian attacks against Ukrainian forces that are still holed up in the big Azovstal plant:
Note also how the aforementioned history-falsifying Ukrainian parliamentarian Lesia Vasylenko conveniently leaves out all mention of Ukrainian troop presence there in her March 19 tweet to give the impression that Russian forces are just destroying Ukrainian infrastructure — and of course the life-sustaining steel plant “environment” — since they are so evil or whatnot:
According to Olga V., at least one Ukrainian sniper also shot and killed Ukrainian civilians after these civilians were advised by Russian forces to wear white bands to protect themselves from Russian fire:
Here is footage of one civilian corpse with a white/pro-Russian band around his neck and bullet holes in his back:
Olga V. once again confirms that it was Ukrainian forces/Azov who attacked and killed civilians, including her family members:
Among the rubble of the destroyed hospital building that was shelled by Ukrainian troops according to Olga V. and in what would be yet another Ukrainian false flag attack, Patrick Lancaster then discovers a female corpse with tied hands (a translation of the words on her ties and arms would be helpful).
Patrick Lancaster apparently first met Olga V. in a bunker where she also testified that a Ukrainian tank was hiding and shooting near the hospital, using its staff and patients as human shields:
And there is even more evidence and testimonials which confirm the above, such as by one Alexander Boroznyak:
While other interpretations of the evidence are also possible (e.g. Patrick Lancaster being given a Russian propaganda tour), the most straightforward interpretation of this evidence is that Ukrainian troops did attack or use Ukrainian civilians as human shields as well as in a later false flag attack.
[continue with part 9]
