# Quote — John Sweeney, Killer in the Kremlin

> When the Kremlin decided that it was foolish to keep sending yet more of its boys to die here, the Russian Army hit reverse gear. And as they did so, they expressed their dismay at their wretched performance against proper soldiers by butchering innocent civilians in the hundreds. By the way, satellite imagery taken during the Russian occupation shows bodies on the streets before the Ukrainians recaptured Bucha. The Russian Army carried out these killings. Full stop.

- Author: [John Sweeney](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-sweeney.md)
- Book: [Killer in the Kremlin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-sweeney/killer-in-the-kremlin.md)
- Page: 23
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-sweeney/killer-in-the-kremlin/when-the-kremlin

## More from this book

> Squealer in Animal Farm but without the charm.

p. 268 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-sweeney/killer-in-the-kremlin/squealer-in-animal.md)

> The Putin I had challenged in 2014 was a different man, subtle, supple, willing to engage with a difficult BBC reporter, albeit only to lie so calmly. The Putin of 2022 was hyper-aggressive. But the reason I felt fear was something else. The Putin I had met in 2014 looked like a ferret or a reptile, thin-faced, lean. The 2022 Putin looks like a hamster, his cheeks stuffed, unhealthy. He looks like a man on steroids and that made me full of fear.

p. 260 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-sweeney/killer-in-the-kremlin/the-putin-i-had.md)

> He was shot in the back of the back several times one hundred metres or so from the walls of the Kremlin, one of the most closely CCTV-filmed areas on earth. The official narrative was that a bin lorry obscured the Kremlin's cameras from capturing the killer or killers. Attentive readers will have already got it, but for the avoidance of any doubt the official narrative is a load of old hogwash. In my four decades-plus of reporting, I have never been detained by police officers more often than outside the Kremlin. You cannot move five yards without a cop demanding to see your passport. The idea that Nemtsov was assassinated but that none of the Kremlin's cameras captured critical evidence is absurd.

p. 174 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-sweeney/killer-in-the-kremlin/he-was-shot.md)