Analysis of three attacks in the city of Chernihiv may offer clues about Putin's tactics in Ukraine.
There have been urgent calls for investigations into allegations of war crimes in previously Russian-held areas of Ukraine after shocking footage of murdered civilians.
Diana, Sasha and Irina crawled into bushes - but soldiers were approaching, shouting to each other, asking where the family were hiding. Bullets cracked towards them. Diana kept crawling, following Sasha as he broke a path for her through the thicket. They went past a burning field and through the forest.Diana has no doubt the attackers were Russian because of their accents, uniforms and the Z symbol daubed on one of the tanks.
The sequence of craters visible in a satellite image suggests ground-launched strikes, says Wim Zwijnenburg, a Dutch arms researcher. The rules of war ban premeditated attacks on targets indispensable to civilian life, such as water supplies. Alina's father, who has a military background, says the incoming fire was from the north-east, consistent with the attack being launched by Russian units operating several kilometres to the north of Chernihiv, according to the mapping team at the Institute for the Study of War .
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed that footage of bodies in Bucha was "staged" after the Russians withdrew. Satellite images contradicted this andThe Russian embassy in London falsely claimed that the bombing of a maternity hospital in Mariupol in March was staged.
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