Germany intercepts Russian radio comms in which soldiers discuss Ukraine killings

Bucha, Ukraine.
(Image credit: Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Germany has reportedly intercepted Russian military communications in which Russian soldiers can be heard discussing killings outside of Kyiv, possibly "bolstering evidence" that Moscow was behind the gruesome massacre in the suburb of Bucha, Bloomberg reports Thursday.

News of the intelligence — acquired by Germany's foreign intelligence service Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) — was first reported by German magazine Der Spiegel, which claims some of the intercepted traffic can be "directly linked" to certain photographs out of the Kyiv suburb.

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Brigid Kennedy

Brigid Kennedy worked at The Week from 2021 to 2023 as a staff writer, junior editor and then story editor, with an interest in U.S. politics, the economy and the music industry.