Posted on 03/04/2022 3:16:31 PM PST by EBH
The Russian flag has now been raised over the ruins of Schastia. In Volnovakha, the attack is still so intense that dead bodies lie uncollected, says local MP Dmytro Lubinets. Ukrainians still brave enough to run rescue missions are going back only for the living.
Thousands of them are trapped in basements, with dwindling supplies of food and water, sheltering from an apparently senseless attack on a town Lubinets says has no military defenders in its centre. The line of contact is 20km away, he says.
“It never stops, every five minutes there is a mortar landing or artillery shells, some buildings have been hit by multiple rocket systems,” he said by phone.
“In the city there is not any building which has not suffered from direct or collateral damage. So some buildings have major destruction, some minor destruction, some are completely destroyed to the ground.”
On Friday morning, Ukrainian media claimed that a Russian war plane bombing “residential areas and civilian infrastructure” in the area was shot down.
“People started evacuation after three days, when Russian forces stopped bombing the town and people could leave the shelters,” he said. “People didn’t have water, gas, electricity for three or four days because of the bombing. They used all kinds of their weapons, Grad rockets, artillery and mines.”
The devastation in larger cities such as Chernihiv and Kharkiv is deadly and terrible...
But what Russian forces appear to show in these smaller towns is that they are willing to leave behind them a wasteland on a massive scale, as they did in Grozny in Chechnya, or – together with Syrian forces – in the ancient city of Aleppo. Neither humanity nor heritage stopped them.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
In an unjust war, all such acts are war crimes.
It’s the Guardian. What do you expect? Actual news? 🤣
Lets see the areal footage with identifiable landmarks. And make sure it is not video game footage.
I have an odd Ukraine question, perhaps no one knows the answer to: When the bombing stops and the rebuilding begins,
where will all these tons of useless wrecked buildings be hauled away to?
Is Snake Island pretty much their only choice?
New York had a similar moment in time after 9/11
multiple TONS of useless, non biodegradeable wreckage.
Weird... I thought all of FR’s Putin Puppets were saying this was a “surgical operation” only going after bioweapons labs and child trafficking rings.
Is every house, hospital, and school a bioweapon lab?
Should we call Code Enforcement?
Not what was said at all. And not what this is about.
Expect barely a peep from this commie rag when their pals in the CCP invade Taiwan. There will be heaps of stuff about ‘Taiwan is historically part of China’etc.
There is a power plant just North of this town. Does that help you?
Putin puffers just follow approved script.
Weird... I thought all of FR’s Putin Puppets were saying this was a “surgical operation”,,,,
They lied.
Just like all those hospitals that were completely overrun during the Delta Plague.....”they’re putting patients in the hospital gift shop, because they ran out of room”. But the only footage I saw were citizen journalists video taping empty hospitals in the supposed “hot spots”.
“In an unjust war, all such acts are war crimes.”
In 100% of all cases in human history, the victor determines if war crimes were committed, and who committed them.
I have a question. What’s so special about Pooty-Poot’s military operation?
The latest youtube upload of any videos was 7 days ago.
Shouldn’t there be hundreds of cell phone videos of this? Not denying it is happening, just curious why current footage is so scarce. I have seen pics and videos from years ago, military exercise vids, etc. but nothing definitive.
How intact are their cell towers and internet connections? I assume those are high on Russia’s target priority.
“‘90% of houses are damaged’: Russia’s Syria-honed tactics lay Ukraine towns to waste’
Interesting that they can only find two apartment building worth of including in the ‘article’. And, actually, most of the Syrian destruction occurred BEFORE Russia got involved, and it was by OUR ALLIES.
“In 100% of all cases in human history, the victor determines if war crimes were committed, and who committed them.”
Morally, evil is evil. Fair-minded observers don’t need to accept the victors’ unjust judgments.
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