Meduza has obtained files containing high-quality videos depicting the southern districts of the city of Bucha,
What can be seen in the drone footage obtained by Meduza?
On these records, you can see the bodies of those killed lying on
In several videos, next to the bodies (at a distance of several tens to several hundred metres), you can see military equipment similar to the equipment used by Russian airborne units (probably BMD and BTR-D). On one of the recordings, people can be distinguished next to one of these combat vehicles. At this time, the bodies of the dead continue to lie a few tens of metres from the location of the military.
On the shooting of
Why is it important?
So far, the main objective documentary evidence that those killed in Bucha died during the presence of Russian troops has been satellite imagery of the city from
We have not only obtained alternative documentary evidence of the presence of Russian troops in Bucha at the time when civilians were killed there, but also independently dated the resulting imagery using astronomical measurements.
Where did Meduza get these videos from?
The video was given to Meduza by Russian nationalist Sergei “Botsman” Korotkikh, whose group is fighting on the side of
Korotkikh is a stakeholder in this story, as pro-government Russian journalists accuse Botsman and his group of being the ones who killed the residents of Bucha on
Why are we sure that the video was made before the arrival of Ukrainian troops?
Three main arguments allow us to confidently assert that the video that we are publishing was filmed before the Russian troops retreated from Bucha:
First of all, Russian military equipment is clearly visible on
Secondly, the source provided us with raw, original drone video files. These files contain detailed metadata, including data on the time of shooting.
Third, since metadata can be faked if desired, we engaged two independent experts who checked the shooting time using astronomical shadow analysis on the image. Their results confirmed that the time in the metadata matches the actual time of filming, and the first video of the dead could not be filmed after
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