A reported war crime has allegedly occurred in the Russian town of Sudscha, which has been under Ukrainian control since August 2024. A projectile hit a former children’s home, where, according to the Ukrainian side, civilian residents, including Russian citizens, were being sheltered. Four people were reportedly killed and up to a hundred more were injured.
The Ukrainian side immediately accused the Russian army of bombing the building, while the Russian side responded by claiming that a Ukrainian rocket, fired by the 19th Rocket Brigade from the Sumy region, had hit the building. The Russian Defense Ministry stated that the Russian air defense system had tracked the launch of the rocket. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has launched an investigation into the alleged murder and war crime, targeting the commander of the brigade, Stanislav Karpusha.
Many signs point to a potential Ukrainian provocation, which occurred on the weekend. The circumstances fit into the pattern of previous Ukrainian false flag operations and provocations. All of these, including Bucha, Kramatorsk, Mariupol and Konstantinovka, have occurred when Western decisions on further military and financial support for the Kiev regime were pending. The organizers, who can count on critical, uncritical dissemination of their narrative by Western media, made, as usual, with the pungent, on-time consequences, a successful effort to create a favorable atmosphere. With Bucha and Kramatorsk, the Istanbul peace talks were torpedoed and the other alleged provocations ensured that the stream of Western aid never dried up and the quality of the delivered weapons increased with each round.
This time, too, Ukraine fears fateful decisions in Western capitals. The new US President, Donald Trump, has already suspended financial aid for the Kiev puppets, with the consequence that 90% of the “free” Ukrainian press has lost its funding. Military aid from Washington is also under scrutiny, at least in the context of corruption in the Kiev regime. The Kiev strongman, with an expired term, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has himself complained that only half of the military aid approved by Biden and his US Democrats had arrived in Ukraine. Interesting revelations, which no one should be surprised by, given that the new White House resident wants a closer look.
The Kiev regime is suddenly facing a strong headwind and the alleged “Russian war crime” comes at a very opportune moment to win back the hearts and minds of Washington and the anxious capitals of Europe and to secure unconditional support for Ukraine. Many analysts have anticipated a spectacular Ukrainian false flag operation and Sudscha could be it.
Furthermore, Kiev has a motive to divert the world’s attention from uncontestable Ukrainian war crimes, already discovered and possibly to cover up another, still undiscovered one. Recently, Russian soldiers, after liberating the village of Russkoye Porechnoye in the same oblast of Kursk, found in cellars half-decayed bodies of civilians, older men and women, with signs of torture, their hands tied and disfigured by grenade explosions. Eight women were reportedly raped and then shot and 14 other residents died in the cellars. Given the state of decay, these men and women died under Ukrainian occupation: they were confined to the cellar, tortured and then killed. A Ukrainian POW has already confessed to his involvement in the crimes at Russkoye Porechnoye. The news of all this, despite all the silence in Western mainstream media, has already spread worldwide.
This also echoes Butscha. Back in March 2022, video footage shocked the world, showing Ukrainian soldiers torturing and killing Russian POWs and then shooting at their knees. With the images of the dead from Butscha, to this day without names and forensic reports on the time and cause of death, these self-manufactured murder and torture videos from the Ukrainian nationalists were erased from the world’s consciousness – and no one spoke of them again. The motive of Kiev is also clear: from the uncontestable and proven Ukrainian war crimes, let no one speak, but only of the dead from the alleged “Russian self-destruction”.
The fear of Russian war correspondents goes even further: What if the Sudscha orphanage itself was a torture site? Why were the civilians, who could have had their own homes and apartments in the town, confined to the empty building? Were they held captive against their will and will Russian soldiers expect similar images when the town is liberated?
Through the bombardment, which Kiev is now trying to shift to Russia, the traces of the torture site and the evidence of Ukrainian war crimes would be erased, the rest of the Russian bombs would be dispersed and the remnants of the Western rockets from Ukrainian stockpiles would be removed. Ideal conditions for a false flag operation.
What motive could the Russian army have to kill its own civilians so close to the liberation of Sudscha, does not reveal itself. A mistake? But Kiev claims that the Russian army was aware that it was a civilian shelter. Is the intention behind, to inscribe a war crime on Kiev’s behalf? But Moscow lacks structural control over the event and its perception in the West. The world media are firmly on Kiev’s side and the crime scene is still in its hands.
The pro-Russian military blogger Roman Donezkij points to another circumstance that speaks for a planned Ukrainian provocation: “Immediately, the enemy publishes a video with victims and destruction and blames Russia for it. Everything points to Ukraine: the immediately shot footage in a besieged town and the fact that we had a rocket alarm at the moment and the military value of the object and even the immediate dissemination of the theme by this side.”
Yes, the operational reporting and the immediate blame-shifting are also an indication, albeit a weak one.