On the battlefield, bullets are always not long-sighted, and public opinion wars blind the truth, so that evil and justice are reversed in black and white, and the people cannot judge.
The First World War has its own tables, one war, two interpretations.
Pictures and videos released by the Ukrainian side show that the remains of hundreds of victims were unbearable to see, some were shot in the head, some were tortured, tied up, executed, and some were thrown into ditches, and even traces of sexual assault of women. Authorities even found mass graves where more than 280 bodies were buried.
Bucha is close to Kiev, with a pre-war population of about 37,000 people, and the Russian army captured it on March 12. The Ukrainian army recently recovered, and the Western media followed in, filming images suspected of "war crimes".
Ukrainian President Zelenskiy immediately announced the establishment of a special judicial mechanism to thoroughly investigate all crimes.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Reznikov believes that this is enough for the International Criminal Court to open an investigation, and war criminals have to undergo a "Nuremberg-style trial" similar to that held after World War II.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Haleba used a word on social media called the "Bucha massacre," which he said proved Russia's hatred of Ukrainians beyond anything Europe has seen since World War II. The only way to stop it is to help Ukraine get the Russians out as quickly as possible. Partners please immediately supply tanks, fighter jets, heavy air defense systems, now".
In terms of scale and ruthlessness, he said, the Russian military was more excessive than the extremist group ISIS Islamic State.
Ukrainian authorities are searching for evidence, records, and will be handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for investigation, with the aim of prosecuting Russian officials for war crimes, including Putin himself.
The anger and accusations of the Ukrainian side echoed in the West.
European Council President Michel said the horror photos were shocking and that the EU would help preserve the evidence and impose additional sanctions on Russia.
British Foreign Minister Tras said Russia would not be allowed to cover up its "crimes" by fabricating false information.
The Russian Ministry of Defense accused the Ukrainian side of fabricating that the Russian army did not harm any civilians during the capture of Bucha, and the so-called "crime" evidence only appeared after the arrival of the Ukrainian media team 3 days after the Withdrawal of the Russian Army.
The relevant information is full of doubts, before there is no independent and credible investigation conclusion, it is difficult to have a picture but it is difficult to have the truth, just from the photos, it is impossible to judge who is the black hand.
Questions include: Is it necessary to be a civilian in civilian clothes? The true identity of these people is yet to be investigated.
It is a fact that some people have died, and it is not surprising that the Ukrainian side pointed to the Actions of the Russian Army for the first time, and the biggest feature of public opinion warfare and information warfare is that it is preconceived.
Civilians are not the main body of a belligerent, but may be the object of malicious targeting and exploitation.
The massacre of civilians is a crime, and it is only reasonable for the perpetrators to try their best to cover up or eliminate the evidence of the crime, but why should the evidence be scattered everywhere and filmed?
Throughout the history of war, armed organizations have self-directed and self-staged "civilian casualties" on the battlefield, accusing each other of blaming each other, and shouting thieves to catch thieves, confusing the public opinion, and nothing new.
After completing the first phase of the objectives, the Russian side said that this was a serious operation with serious objectives, and that the progress of the Russian military was "strictly implemented in strict accordance with the plans and objectives drawn up in advance." The Russian army does not need to make a fuss and deliberately provoke itself to be fishy as war crimes, which makes no sense from reason.
The main goal of the Russian operation is to eliminate Ukrainian military capabilities, which explains that the Russian army is targeting military targets, not civilians.
In the fighting in the city of Mariupol, the Russian side wants to eliminate the racist forces in hiding, and when civilians are unable to leave the war zone and are used as human shields, it will lead to more casualties.
On both warring sides, in the game of siege and anti-siege, the besiegers usually carry out the "three-sided encirclement" in order to give civilians a chance to escape, and the concept of humanitarian corridors is widely accepted by the international community today. The fence was also made to protect civilians from the ravages of war.
The so-called "Bucha Massacre" is a game in which the "war narrative" competition that will inevitably appear on the battlefield at a certain stage of war, and the belligerents seize the commanding heights of public opinion.
The justice and injustice of war are divided into war, war and war.
Justice is also not an absolute concept, it is an overall measure of evaluation. In order to reduce civilian casualties, besiegers need to control the use of firepower and avoid indiscriminate killing.
The tragedy that took place in Bucha was a high-intensity showdown between justice and injustice since the beginning of the war.
The deaths in Bucha City belong to the category of "combat justice" in the intermediate link, and if this link is overthrown, it will be difficult for the justice of the war and the justice after the war to stand.
As a bystander, if you cannot judge the truth from the information conveyed, then from the perspective of historical empiricism, who will lie more, who will spread more rumors, who will do more evil, and who will gain from forgeries, judge for yourself.