kind of late but I stumbled on this looking for something else. The Ukrainians rolled up in Bucha and started celebrating about the Russians leaving for a couple of days and none of them, not even the news, mentioned dozens of people executed in handcuffs and dumped in the streets that we were told were everywhere in broad daylight. Only a couple days later, AFTER they announced they'd be doing security sweeps to find Russian sympathizers, did a bunch of bodies appear littering the streets.
The satellite image provided, which was claimed to have been from March 19th, 2 weeks before the Ukrainians arrived, had no metadata to prove the time/date it was taken. Not only that, but the bodies appeared to be much, much fresher than corpses left out in the sun for 2 weeks, and the satellite company refused to sell any other pictures taken AFTER the claimed date. People from OSINT and GEOINT analyzed the satellite image and determined it must have been taken on April 1st because the positions of the shadows and the recent rainfall in the image that could only have been from the storm which occurred from March 31st to April 1st.
OOTL on the Bucha massacre?
kind of late but I stumbled on this looking for something else. The Ukrainians rolled up in Bucha and started celebrating about the Russians leaving for a couple of days and none of them, not even the news, mentioned dozens of people executed in handcuffs and dumped in the streets that we were told were everywhere in broad daylight. Only a couple days later, AFTER they announced they'd be doing security sweeps to find Russian sympathizers, did a bunch of bodies appear littering the streets.
The satellite image provided, which was claimed to have been from March 19th, 2 weeks before the Ukrainians arrived, had no metadata to prove the time/date it was taken. Not only that, but the bodies appeared to be much, much fresher than corpses left out in the sun for 2 weeks, and the satellite company refused to sell any other pictures taken AFTER the claimed date. People from OSINT and GEOINT analyzed the satellite image and determined it must have been taken on April 1st because the positions of the shadows and the recent rainfall in the image that could only have been from the storm which occurred from March 31st to April 1st.