Bucha's 'butcher': a Russian colonel on a mission to kill any man of fighting age

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The horror in Ukraine has many perpetrators.

But one name in particular is believed to be behind the most shocking killing to date: Azatbek Omurbekov, a lieutenant colonel in Russia's 64th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade.

His involvement in the takeover of Bucha, the town some 15km northwest of Kiev, puts him high in the chain of command during a

of dozens of unarmed people uncovered earlier this week.

The activist group InforNapalm has identified the suspected war criminal, sharing via its Telegram group the email address, phone number and home address of the individual, who is in his forties.

This group of Ukrainians assures that they have achieved it thanks to the OSINT investigation, consisting of combing the Internet in search of publicly accessible data sources.

Thanks to his investigations, it has become known that Omurbekov, who has already begun to be nicknamed 'Bucha's butcher', received an award for his services in 2014 from the Russian Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov.

InforNapalm shared some of the photos of him, including one in which he appeared with two stars on his shoulder pads, indicative of his rank as a commander in unit 51460, stationed in the Russian Far East.

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has completed the investigation by providing some statements by the aforementioned: "History shows that we fight most of our battles with our souls," Omurbekov said during a mass near his base, led by the Bishop of Khabarovsk, in which He received the blessing before the mission that had supposedly been entrusted to him: to occupy the outskirts of Kiev and

to suppress any possible outbreak of insurgency.

The result of these plans has horrified the world.

A trail of bodies, which could exceed 300 in number, lay in the streets, sewers and ground floor of Bucha when the Ukrainian troops arrived.

Some of the bodies appeared

one of the signs of having been victims of summary executions, denounced as war crimes by various international organizations and by the Government of Ukraine.

's executive

has denounced that, among the outrages committed by the men who were allegedly under the orders of Azatbek Omurbekov, there are rapes of minors, torture, murders of women and amputation of limbs.

It all happened under the aegis of Russia and its 'special operation' to 'denazify' Ukraine.

Kiev has warned that as its forces advance into areas abandoned by the invaders,

The Russian Defense Ministry has reported that Omurbekov's battalion left Bucha on March 30 and is now in neighboring Belarus.

But it is expected that, as the Kremlin assured, this force will move to the east of Ukraine, whose eastern region of Donbas is the new objective to be occupied.

The mission of the OSINT activists will be, once again, to follow the tracks of the Russian troops to help in the investigations that try to clarify the crimes committed in Ukraine.

The OSINT method has been a key tool in the processes of monitoring and investigating armed conflicts for years.

In this latest war, the work of many local and foreign

researchers , often through the Internet alone, is greatly reducing the margin of uncertainty surrounding events.

This exposes some Russian hoaxes, such as the one that blames Ukraine for Bucha's corpses.

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