I think you might be surprised at how many of us pray for the *Ukrainian people.*
“many of us pray for the *Ukrainian people.*
They have been invaded by a large army, that has deliberately and systematically violated every tenet of the laws of war, found in the Geneva and Hague Conventions (to which Russia is a signatory). Every single one.
Deliberately targeting civilians and critical civilian infrastructure (like electricity, water and heat in the Winter) has been a central tactic adopted by those barbaric war criminals - for over 90% of their cruise missile strikes of the whole war. Clearly, that has been approved at all levels of command, up to Putin.
The systematic criminal use of torture (the real bone breaking kind, not just waterboarding) and extra-judicial executions, against non-combatant political opponents; was obviously a deliberately planned strategy to terrorize the population - repeated everywhere the invading Russian forces occupied, and deliberately resourced in the plan with FSB (KGB) units included, which came with pre-established lists of political opponents to torture and murder, piling their bodies into mass graves. This has been exhaustively documented by International war crimes prosecutors from The Hague, and the representatives of dozens of countries. They will go down in history as the viscous aggressors that they are, to the enduring shame of their witting and unwitting apologists in the West, who fall for and parrot their KGB Propaganda, aiding and abetting their epic atrocities.
Olga Sukhenko, the mayor of Motyzhyn — a suburban village just outside the capital, Kyiv, and her family, have become emblematic of of this systematic Russian brutality. She was arrested by the FSB field unit attached to the Russian Military command in her area, having been on a list of local politicians identified as holding pro-Ukrainian views. All her fingers were broken, as well as both arms. Her husband and son had both of their arms broken. All three were shot in the head, and their bodies were dumped in a mass grave of more than three hundred victims, behind that one particular torture chamber. Google the pictures of their bodies if you like, to appreciate what you would be condoning, if you advocate allowing Russia to invade and oppress.
These horrors have been repeated everywhere the Russians occupied. The FSB units were deliberately formed and trained for that mission, and the lists extensively prepared ahead of the invasion.