
So this is what denazification looks like. Bodies littered across the street, victims filling mass graves, destruction and grief congealing in a way only war can replicate. To Grozny, Chechnya and Aleppo, Syria, we can now add Bucha, Ukraine.
As today’s leader column expresses, as horrific as these crimes are, as shocking as the images emanating from Bucha, Mariupol, Kharkiv, Irpin and across the country, we cannot say we are surprised. This is what Vladimir Putin does. This is how he wages war.