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FOCUS, Der Spiegel:


According to a report in Der Spiegel, Germany's Federal Intelligence Service has intercepted radio transmissions from Russian soldiers in which they discuss the atrocities in Butscha. Individual conversations are even said to match photographed corpses. In one radio message, a soldier tells another that he and his comrades shot a person off a bicycle. In another radio message, a man is heard saying that the Russian soldiers questioned civilians, then shot them.

According to "Spiegel," the radio transmissions reveal that the massacres are not the acts of individual soldiers gone wild. Rather, the acts seem planned. The conversations about them sound commonplace. This certainly suggests that the murder of civilians - as in previous wars - is part of the war strategy of the Russians.

The audio recordings of the BND, which were presented in the parliamentary room on Wednesday, according to "Spiegel", are further evidence that Russian troops are responsible for the massacres in Butscha and the surrounding area. Terrifyingly, the intelligence service has other audio documents that suggest that there are such massacres in other regions as well. So far, however, they cannot be clearly assigned to locations.

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Ukrainian intelligence has released an audio recording purporting to show a Russian commander talking to a soldier on the ground in Mariupol. The recording, if it turns out to be genuine, is a chilling illustration of the brutal attitude of Russian troops in the city, which has been under siege for weeks. "Damn them, kill them all," the commander is reported to say in a raised voice in the recording. "Civilians, everyone, kill them all."

The second man to take the announcement seems meek, the commander repeatedly resorting to insults and yelling at his soldier in between. In the end, the soldier only barely admits that he understands.

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