Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Who's to say this isn't an order from above - wouldn't surprise me...leave no man alive!

Respectfully: I don't think someone would be arguing that if Britain+NI or whatever (sorry) had said '**** it, they're Nazis,' leveled Belfast to the ground with artillery, bombed the hospitals and churches, raped the girls, left the bodies in the torture rooms and in the streets and then just fucked off with all the loyalists while this all blew over at the UN.

Todays update from the ISW:-

"Russian forces will likely require a lengthy operational pause to integrate reinforcements into existing force structures in eastern Ukraine and enable successful operations but appear unlikely to do so and will continue to bleed their forces in ineffective daily attacks"

What/who/where were they targeting with the artillery? I don't know anything specifically about the artillery or the damage. Indiscriminate fire could certainly be considered genocidal, a war-time hate-crime.

Off to the scrappers?

I'm surprised they would be recovering damaged equipment (because all evidence so far shows everything damaged abandoned?) perhaps ones that broke down before they made it into the field?

How is genocide/war crimes going to be proved? Video evidence? Pathology? Eyewitnesses? Confessions?

Seeing these Russian atrocities carried out against Ukrainian civilians will enrage the Ukrainian military and it will have the knock on effect of them doing atrocities on Russian military. This will in turn lead the Russians to act more aggressive on Ukrainian prisoners and civilians. This war is going to get a whole lot more bloody and disgusting then sadly it already is. Only thing is people should not be surprised by this sadly, sadly as a people we haven't evolved to not be cruel to other human beings. War brings out the beast in good people and they do the most horrendous things to people and you have the most horrible people who in war time can enact the worse possible things on people. This has always been the case throughout history and is still the same today and probably in 100 years time when people who are alive after us will be saying the same thing about some other conflict in the world they can't believe what people can do during a war to fellow people. It's disgusting and should be a thing of the past but sadly it's just something that has happened since war has been a part of the human race and sadly so sadly will happen again when we're all dead and gone.

Not trying to excuse, condone or any " other" . The Russian army has been taking a right pasting so far in the war in Ukraine. Burned out tanks, APC's etc, are common sight, as are the bodies of Russian soldiers. These are all pretty gruesome sights, and all the more so to their friends and comrades. ( not to mention their Families) but all the time the pressure is growing, and then it explodes, and the result is a killing spree like we have seen in Bucha. Bucha holds bad memories for the Russians, it was one of the places where the advance on Kyiv was stopped dead in its tracks, elite units and all. The street's were littered with with Russian military hardware, a complete column of armored vehicles gutted. And of course, many dead or injured. But it was also a huge "Loss of Face" and humiliating experience for supposedly one of the finest combat units in the Russian Army, the Airborne Paratroopers. And now it seems this atrocity is their revenge.