Russian violence targeting Ukrainian civilians was 'something that was planned,' national security advisor Jake Sullivan says
Russian officials have claimed the massacre of civilians in Bucha was a hoax meant to frame the Russian military, but experts have said Russia's claimsSullivan said on Sunday that it's possible that Russian soldiers and military units became"frustrated because the Ukrainians were beating them back."
"They had been told they were going to have a glorious victory and just ride into Kyiv without any opposition with the Ukrainians welcoming them," Sullivan said."And when that didn't happen, I do think some of these units engaged in these acts of brutality, these atrocities, these war crimes even without direction from above.
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