them said jack watling a senior research fellow at rusi who shared the battle plans with the apwhile there is nothing necessarily illegal about that order it was often implemented with flagrant disregard for the laws of war as russian troops seized territories across ukrainewitnesses and survivors in bucha as well as ozera babyntsi and zdvyzhivka all areas under chaikos command told the ap and frontline that russian soldiers tortured and killed people on the slightest suspicion they might be helping the ukrainian military sweeps intensified after russian positions were hit with precision interviews and video show and soldiers in intercepted phone calls obtained by the ap told their loved ones that theyd been ordered to take a nomercy approach to suspected informantssoldiers told their mothers wives and friends back in russia that they had killed people simply for being out on the street when real civilians would have been in the basement calls the ukrainian government intercepted near kyiv showon march 21 a soldier named vadim called his mother we have the order to take phones from everyone and those who resist in short to hell with the fwe have the order it does not matter whether theyre civilians or not kill everyonethe slightest movement of a curtain in a window a possible sign of a spotter or a gunman justified slamming an apartment block with lethal artillery ukrainians who confessed to passing along russian troop coordinates were summarily executed including teenagers soldiers saidwe have the order not to take prisoners of war but to shoot them all dead directly a soldier nicknamed lyonya said in a march 14 phone callthere was a boy 18 years old taken prisoner first they shot through his leg with a machine gun then he got his ears cut off he admitted to everything and was shot dead lyonya told his mom we do not take prisoners meaning we dont leave anyone alivethe dossier center a londonbased investigative group funded by russian opposition figure mikhail khodorkovsky verified the identity of the soldiers who made those calls by crossreferencing russian phone numbers linked social media accounts public reporting and information in leaked russian databasesthats where people were killedfierce ukrainian resistance and poor planning pushed russian troops off their planned line of attack some of them ended up in bucha where ukrainian prosecutors say the 76th guards airborne assault division participated in a lethal cleansing operation on march 4 along yablunska street the deadliest road in occupied bucha and the site of an important russian command centerothers settled with thousands of other troops in zdvyzhivka a tiny village half an hour north of bucha that became a major forward operating base for the assault on the capitol according to ukrainian military intelligence and audio intercepts obtained by aprussian troops dug into the woods around zdvyzhivka building virtual cities that stretched for several kilometers beneath the tall pines and poplar trees they left gaping trenches sized for tanks semipermanent bunkers