Within the last 24 hours, footage first posted by Артем Гурін emerged showing murdered civilians lying in the streets of Bucha, Ukraine. This footage (geolocated in the thread below) was not taken in the outskirts of the city where panicking Russians were fleeing and…
…possibly blindly firing their weapons. These murders were intentional. This picture is a screenshot from Артем Гурін’s video. His Instagram bio says that he is a/the Deputy of the Irpin City Council, but previous posts by him earlier in the day placed him in Bucha. 
Same place on Street View in Google maps has the same distinctive house with its windows, peaks, roof features, fence, and the tower to the side. The street view is 6 years old, so some details have changed.
Recently a lower quality video of the same street has emerged. Where Артем Гурін‘a video angles didn’t show some nearby structures fully, this one did.
From this video we can take a screenshot of some larger buildings, a tower, and some power line poles
We can then match this up with the satellite photo from Google maps (partially occluded by clouds. This is the main reason it took so long to geolocate).
In Артем Гурін’s original video, we can see some civilians murdered on the side of the road. A much higher quality image of these people has since come forward. One person had their hands tied behind their back while they were executed.
Putting all of this together, we can determine the street where this particular massacre took place. Why is this important? As alluded to earlier in the thread, this location isn’t on the fringes of the city. It is right in the heart near where Bucha and Irpin meet.
The Russian’s weren’t fleeing and killing civilians by mistake. At the time of these killings, they had to have had control of the city and its streets. Hands tied behind backs executed in front of homes. If this is not a clear cut case of a war crime, then I don’t know what is.
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