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According to @TheStudyofWar, #Russia’s 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, the unit linked to atrocities in #Bucha, has likely been destroyed in combat, possibly in an intentional Kremlin effort to conceal war crimes.

@Newsweek:
newsweek.com/bucha-massacre…
.@RFERL's @kromark conducted an investigation into the brigade following its participation in atrocities in #Bucha and concluded that after heavy fighting on the #Izyum and #Slovyansk axes, the brigade has largely ceased to exist. /1
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Krutov stated that out of 1,500 soldiers who were in the brigade before the war, 200 to 300 were likely killed. /2
The brigade was rushed back into combat in eastern #Ukraine after it had completed its withdrawal from around #Kyiv without much time to rest, refit, receive replacements, or recover. /3

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