Those details matched personal profiles registered to those phone numbers, along with other New York Times reporting on the units present in the areas around Bucha. In some instances, soldiers said their names or gave other personal details, including the names of their commanders, or their unit number. And details divulged in some calls were verified with contemporaneous reports in Russian media. The Times confirmed the identity of one soldier and his relative over the phone. Reporters with the Visual Investigations team independently authenticated the calls by cross-referencing outgoing and incoming Russian phone numbers with messaging apps and Russian social media accounts, and information contained in leaked Russian databases. The phones were used to call hundreds of phone numbers in Russia during its campaign in March. Twenty-two phones were shared among dozens of soldiers who identified themselves as being members of several military units, including the 656th National Guard Regiment and the 237th and 331st Airborne Regiments. The Times spent almost two months translating the recordings from Russian to English. Putin’s destructive advance quickly stalled, and his forces became bogged down for most of March on the city’s outskirts.įrom trenches, dugouts and in occupied homes in the area around Bucha, a western suburb of Kyiv, Russian soldiers disobeyed orders by making unauthorized calls from their cellphones to their wives, girlfriends, friends and parents hundreds of miles from the front line.Īs part of a monthslong investigation into atrocities committed during Russia’s campaign to seize Kyiv, reporters with The New York Times exclusively obtained more than 4,000 recordings of Russian soldiers’ phone calls intercepted in the Bucha area by Ukrainian law enforcement agencies. KYIV - The Ukrainian capital was supposed to fall in a matter of days.īut plagued by tactical errors and fierce Ukrainian resistance, President Vladimir V. Translations by Aleksandra Koroleva and Oksana Nesterenko. We have 40 pounds of product ready to ship, ready to go.Visual Investigations ‘Putin Is a Fool’: Intercepted Calls Reveal Russian Army in Disarray In phone calls to friends and relatives at home, Russian soldiers gave damning insider accounts of battlefield failures and civilian executions, excoriating their leaders just weeks into the campaign to take Kyiv.īy Yousur Al-Hlou, Masha Froliak and Evan Hill. Just think of it as a finder's fee for bringing us together. And if you give him the five million dollars of the 15 million that you brought today. So his share of the partnership is for sale, if you can handle his end. And with our skills, you'll earn more from that 35% than you ever will on your own. No, two of the greatest meth cooks in America right here. That's 130 million dollars a profit that isn't being pissed away by some substandard cook. Do you understand? For what? To watch a bunch of junkies get a better high?Ī better high means customers pay more. We're not gonna give up this deal to become your errand boys. you have the opportunity to sell it yourself. You already ape my product at every turn. You dye your meth with food colouring to make it look like mine. My partner tells me that your crew switched to a P2P cook because of our success. If we just waste you right here, right now, and leave you in the desert then there is no more coke on the market, right? See how that works? There's only us.ĭo you really wanna live in a world without Coca-Cola? My partners here tell me that you produce a meth that's 70% pure, if you're lucky. Do you know how far we had to stick our necks out to get our hands on this cash? And why the hell would we want you? You realize we have our own operation, right? So if you agree to give up your cook and sell my product instead, I'll give you 35% of the take.ģ5%? Are you kidding me? 35. That 1000 gallons of methylamine is worth more in my hands than it is in yours or anyone else's for that matter. Why don't you just cut to what it is you want, or what you think is gonna happen. What the hell is this? We had an agreement, right? We got our deal. Looks like you're about 1000 gallons light here, Mike.
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