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Ukraine: Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger civilians
Amnesty International ^ | August 4, 2022

Posted on 08/04/2022 5:52:17 PM PDT by Navy Patriot

Military bases set up in residential areas including schools and hospitals

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Ukrainian forces have put civilians in harm’s way by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in populated residential areas, including in schools and hospitals...

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“We have documented a pattern of Ukrainian forces putting civilians at risk and violating the laws of war when they operate in populated areas,” said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General.

“Being in a defensive position does not exempt the Ukrainian military from respecting international humanitarian law.”

(Excerpt) Read more at amnesty.org ...


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To: Kazan
The Ukrainians as despicable as the Palestinian savages.

Any other groups of people in the world that you have such bigotry against?

21 posted on 08/04/2022 8:21:05 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: Navy Patriot
When you have sufficient Power, all rules are off.

It doesn't take long for the Russian loving Freepers to show their true colors.

Do you worship all those tyrants who have done what you say?

22 posted on 08/04/2022 8:22:58 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: Navy Patriot
So if your country gets invaded and you are fighting house to house in an urban area somehow that is a problem for Amnesty International, but being the invading army that is shelling those buildings and going from house to house attacking the people's homes is OK.

I guess all those people who said Amnesty International was a communist front were right.

23 posted on 08/04/2022 8:25:06 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: NFHale
No, the Russians INVADING Ukrainian sovereign territory is endangering civilians.
See how simple that is? Amazing, ain’t it???


I am trying to understand how the Ukies are violating the "laws of war" when their remaining civilian population are all hiding in their basements as the Russians shell the apartment buildings. That's a puzzler.
24 posted on 08/04/2022 8:25:19 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Cathi

LOL! Pure Kremlin Propaganda! It is even written in Russian for their true believers.

So many howlers. Like this one. LOL!:

“Such a deplorable state of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can only testify to one thing - they do not have long to exist - draw your own conclusions!”

Which is why the all powerful Russian army is stalled and cant move forward when it would be steadily advancing as the Ukrainian defense collapses if this post was accurate.

Putins 3 day war is now over 160 days long with no victory in sight.

BTW, those collapsing, demoralized Ukrainians are actually doing very well as this video shows:

“6 Russian commanders and 5 regular soldiers were on their way back from a meeting at a command and control center.

The Ukrainians had prepared an ambush.

All 11 are reported to be dead.”

https://twitter.com/ChuckPfarrer/status/1555303032765702151?s=20&t=RZde5cQ6IDFlaWMzFBKmxg


25 posted on 08/04/2022 8:37:22 PM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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To: freeandfreezing
It doesn't take long for HomoNazi loving Freepers to show their true colors.

Do you worship all those Homos who have done what you love?

26 posted on 08/04/2022 8:38:35 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: freeandfreezing
So if your country gets invaded and you are fighting house to house in an urban area somehow that is a problem for Amnesty International...

Take it up with Amnesty International, it's their report that you couldn't suppress.

27 posted on 08/04/2022 8:42:42 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot

Looks like Putin propagandist, Navy Patriot, is calling anyone who disagrees with his propaganda “HomoNazi loving Freepers”.

What he is speaks louder than what he says.


28 posted on 08/04/2022 8:46:58 PM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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To: Navy Patriot

Troglodytes would be proud of this “statement”, orcs too… Hitler and Mao, as well. You are in a good company…


29 posted on 08/04/2022 8:51:29 PM PDT by exinnj
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To: Uncle Lonny

More from Putin toady our so called “Navy Patriot” calling Freepers who disagree with him: “ Propagandist, Lying Backstabbing Degenerate GloboHomoNazi Supporting Filth”

One must ask what navy is “Navy Patriot” named after? The Russian Black Sea fleet based at Sevastopol in Crimea?


30 posted on 08/04/2022 8:56:28 PM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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To: freeandfreezing

I feel very, very sorry for the people of Ukraine. They are good people. Unfortunately, corrupt Ukrainian politicians and oligarchs have gotten together our corrupt politicians and oligarchs to destroy their nation.


31 posted on 08/04/2022 8:57:49 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: exinnj
Pride has nothing to do with it and is meaningless for this Truth.

It is simply a True Statement and YOU cannot control or Deny the Truth of it. That's the burr in your shorts.

32 posted on 08/04/2022 8:57:54 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Uncle Lonny

Biden has approved another $550 million for “democracy.”
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s losses are in the 200,000 area.

I am posting something from a Ukrainian soldier here and right under it I am going to repost something from a Russian that covers the same time period and location. They seem to be seeing things the same way so it gives a clear picture of what it actually going on.

https://censor.net/ua/resonance/3358083/pisky_myasorubka

Author: Serhiy Gnezdilov

What is there to lose, what else can be taken from me on the sixth day of my personal hell, in Pisky, a kilometer from the first street of Donetsk, Ukraine? The bodies of those who were dearer to me than my family are lying under the heat in the trenches, broken by the 152 caliber. As I wrote earlier, 6,500 shells per damn village in less than a day.

Sands. Meat grinder 01

It’s been six such days already, and I can’t imagine how even a small number of our infantry survived in this barrage of enemy fire.

No, I’m not whining.

Two mortars 82 and 120 are working on our side.

Sometimes he wakes up and “sneezes” two artillery barrels in the direction of Donetsk.

We hardly respond. There is no counter-battery fire, from the word go, the enemy puts artillery shells in our trenches without any problems, dismantles very strong, concrete positions in tens of minutes, pushing our defense line without pause or minimal rest.

The day before yesterday, it broke, and a river of two or three hundred was poured. I will not publish any statistics, it is forbidden in our country, but you have no idea the number and percentage of losses.

This is a hell of a meat grinder, where the battalion simply holds back the onslaught with their bodies.

For almost a week, we have been waiting for at least some kind of help that would hit the enemy’s artillery, we, I repeat, are being fired with impunity with everything that the Russian military system is rich in, the aviation was working today.

I am proud of the leadership of the battalion that remained here with us. The combatant is with us, all of us are with us, contused, light three hundred, bandaged and returned after a couple of hours to the position, if you can call these bottomless ravines that way.

There is a war going on.

But without a counter-battery fight, it turns into a senseless meat grinder, where an insane amount of our infantry is ground up in a day.

Did you really want the truth? Here it is, the naked truth.

The reserve goes to the position, closes the breakthrough, and after five minutes only one of the 15 people remains intact.

The bodies lie. If it’s a light 300, maybe you’ll be lucky, you’ll faint, and you’ll get out on foot, you’ll reach the medics.

They just took the three hundredth. He shouted all the way: - Where is the support? Where is the artillery? Why were we abandoned? Why didn’t anyone cover us?

I don’t know, my friend, why no one covered us... He screams, and I’m ashamed that I’m still safe and sound, only a couple of good deafening.

I threw up, I’m sorry, and I’m back in action.

All reserves are destroyed, military equipment is on fire, the enemy approaches and without any problems occupies our positions after another barrage of artillery.

Right now we are losing the Sands, all our human and material resources are almost exhausted.

Denys, a resident of Mariupol, who told me “well, I believe the arrestee, we will return everything very soon” is dead. He was wounded twice, they tied him up right in the trench, they told him, Denchyk, go to the evacuation, but he answered “guys, I won’t abandon you.”

Both wounded for the first time, and after the second wounding, he continued to shoot back.

We still haven’t taken his body. On the ruins of the Sands, he lies with his arms outstretched and his gaze frozen. He asks for revenge. How can I refuse his latest request? How can we all leave Dan?

I believe that Dimka survived after all. Because he could not die, having recently returned from the hospital, having just proposed to his girlfriend. They say that after one of the parishes he simply disappeared. It fell asleep with earth. But, I believe that this is a mistake, and he is alive. Foolish hope and expectation.

I know, my country does not like to think aloud. But, I was left with no choice between victory and arrest. The truth should be heard, not whispers in the kitchen. Of course, he will fly separately for this post, because how? Yes, does the state lie to its own citizens?

I won’t be surprised if someone says today: “Kremlin agent Sirozh talked about the brilliant plan of the victors on the Donetsk front, let’s hang him on the Peacemaker.”

I amused to say that everything is under control. Now in Pisky, everything is not under anyone’s control, but for some reason the situation is being hushed up.

Ring broken bells while we cover the Sands with bodies.

We need artillery.

Give us something here to hold on to.

Sergey Hnezdilov


Джерело: https://censor.net/ua/r3358083 https://twitter.com/DeuNachrichten Every day it is getting more and more obvious that the brunt of the fighting today is going along the Solidar, Bahkmut, Adveyevka, Donetsk, Maryinka line. Near Bahkmut Russian troops have been stubbornly advancing throughout the day. According to the General Staff of Ukraine, its last evening report, Russian troops were able to take positions in Semigorye, took, according to their data a part of the settlement.

Usually when the Ukrainian side says about losing part of a settlement it often turns out that they have lost the whole. So far I have no data that the entire Semigorye have been taken. Nevertheless according to the same Summary of the General Staff there are attacks in the area of Zaitsevo and Kodema we see that they attempt to access Bahkmut from the south in order to then start the battle inside the city already.

Ukrainian sources say that Zaluzhny reported to Zelensky the other day that the battles for Bahkmut inside the city itself, according to his calculations may begin next week. This is already becoming inevitable, given that the main reserves are now going into the Southern direction. Some of the artillery systems have been removed from here. There is nothing the Ukrainian armed forces can do here to counter the might of the Russian offenses.

Reserves are running out and the tactics that I spoke about a couple days ago, how Russian troops are attacking today near ADveyevka and Donetsk directions (by the way they took several strong points in the area of Peski and Kras nogorokva took some positions in the area north of Adveyevka - all this puts an extra pressure on the Ukrainian army and it brings results.

Because the losses that the enemy is suffering on this entire contact line (and our units are not really in a hurry to go forward, they are just grinding reserves here and taking new positions only when the enemy stops offering any resistance at all) that is the ratio of losses is now to the level of 1.15; 1.20 and it is clear that the Ukrainians cannot bear such losses for a long time. If the Russian command is able to maintain such an intensity of fire on this entire line for at least a week or two, it is obvious that at first the front will float and the enemy will roll back to the northwest quite quickly, surrendering Bahkmut and Solidar and in August we already see the battle for Savyansk and Kramatorsk already.


33 posted on 08/04/2022 9:01:49 PM PDT by Cathi
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To: Uncle Lonny

It’s a accurate description, if you want to join ‘em, Lonny.


34 posted on 08/04/2022 9:02:20 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Uncle Lonny

What I am is Observant, what you SAY I am is just your opinion on your toilet paper.


35 posted on 08/04/2022 9:17:29 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot

More current examples of the collapsing Ukrainian army. Or dont you believe your lying eyes?

Ukrainian counter-battery fire hit a 9P140 MRL of the 220 mm BM-27 Uragan system, destroying it and sending rockets flying wildly.

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1555266950325932032?s=20&t=umuthHxRsfm9rO93UpqT4A

Looks like they have plenty of RPGs too. Perhaps you could translate the dialog into English given your superior knowlege? https://twitter.com/Rinegati/status/1555272021956825092?s=20&t=umuthHxRsfm9rO93UpqT4A


36 posted on 08/04/2022 9:26:49 PM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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To: Cathi

More bad news for you Cathi. Your beloved invaders had a bad day.

Not bad for a collapsing Ukrainian Army:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2022/08/04/the-ukrainian-army-just-blew-up-a-russian-ammo-train-the-fourth-of-the-war/?sh=4a14ffa96b50


37 posted on 08/04/2022 9:41:24 PM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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To: Uncle Lonny

Reportedly night time video of distant explosions of the ammo train https://twitter.com/GlasnostGone/status/1555067473879343107?s=20&t=umuthHxRsfm9rO93UpqT4A


38 posted on 08/04/2022 9:43:39 PM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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To: Uncle Lonny
Take it up with Amnesty International, Lonny, it's their report.

I didn't say I believed it or not, and I didn't say whether it was the Truth or not, I only said it was an AI report, which it was.

Everything else I did say was an obvious absolute Truth, like the Winner will write the rules and the history.

I didn't say who the winner will be, but you're worried because you don't think it will be your favorite Homo.

To bad for you.

As for me, I know it will go as I predicted: the Most Effectively Powerful Will Win.

Notice I didn't say who that will be.

39 posted on 08/04/2022 9:47:51 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot

“What I am is Observant, what you SAY I am is just your opinion on your toilet paper.”

LOL! The irony! The irony!

This from a Putin propagandist who calls those who disagree with him: “ Lying Backstabbing Degenerate GloboHomoNazi Supporting Filth”

What you are speaks louder than what you say.

Have a nice day.


40 posted on 08/04/2022 9:57:03 PM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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