The 2020 report that Right_Wing_Madman references but either didn't read or is incapable of understanding, says
From 1 to 31 March 2020, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 19 conflict-related civilian casualties: two killed (one man and one woman) and 17 injured (eight women, six men, two girls and one boy), a 280 per cent increase compared with February 2020 (one killed and four injured).
Let me spell it out why that ain't genocide and that ain't a causus belli for war. Five civilians died in one month, 19 in another month, it's 280% increase on an already statistically insignificant number. And where were those civilians who were getting shelled? OH. Well blow me down... they were in the Ukrainian controlled WEST. So they were being hit by, anyone, anyone, Bueller? Yup, missiles from the EAST. In other words, it's the DNR separatists who were lobbing the shells that were killing civilians.
The majority of civilian casualties resulting from shelling and SALW fire were recorded in three areas: Horlivka and Zaitseve; the western parts of Donetsk and settlements to the west (Krasnohorivka, Marinka, Oleksandrivka, Staromykhailivka and Syhnalne); and Dokuchaievsk.
OK, the immediate reaction to facts from the Putin lobby is a bit like Dracula's reaction to garlic mayo, so immediately they get dismissed as Western sources. You'd think the West woul airbrush the numbers down with Russia's version being way way higher, to justify their SMO. Well... Funnily enough, that hasn't happened. Because Russia has its own far more detailed reports that merit far more attention than Lavrov's bitching or Putin's distant history recitals, and here's the one from the FSB office of the Putin-approved DNR Ombudsman, in Donetsk. Dec 2020 monthly report | ombudsman-dnr.ru
Within the period between 1 January and 25 December 2020, in the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic, 105 persons sustained injuries and traumas of varying severities... 70 servicemen of the Republic and 35 civilians Within the period between 1 January and 25 December 2020, in the territory of the DPR, 47 servicemen of the Republic and 5 civilians died as a result of armed aggression by Ukraine.
The 2021 equivalent report is Dec 2021 monthly report | ombudsman-dnr.ru
Within the period between 1 January and 30 December 2021, in the territory of the DPR, 129 people sustained injuries ... 97 servicemen of the Republic and 32 civilians. Within the period between 1 January and 30 December 2021, in the territory of the DPR, 7 civilians and 70 servicemen of the Republic died ...
Example 2: Jan 2022 monthly report | ombudsman-dnr.ru
CASES OF INJURIES AND TRAUMAS OF VARYING SEVERITY AS A RESULT OF ARMED AGGRESSION BY UKRAINE IN THE TERRITORY OF THE DPR FROM JANUARY 01, 2022 TO JANUARY 28, 2022 CIVILIANS: 0 SERVICEMEN OF THE REPUBLIC: 2 IN TOTAL: 2 DEATH TOLL AS A RESULT OF ARMED AGGRESSION BY UKRAINE IN THE TERRITORY OF THE DPR FROM JANUARY 01, 2022 TO JANUARY 21, 2022 CIVILIANS: 0 SERVICEMEN: 1
There's no equivalent data summarised in the Feb 2022 monthly report because the DNR didn't want to advertise the difference between the single digit deaths in that month pre-invasion and the multi-digit numbers after it. Doing so would've conclusively proved to the entire world that Denis Pushilin's "prevent a genocide" plea to Moscow was a staged false flag.
No matter how many times the pro-Putin trolls dredge up this allegation, the FSB's own monitors, and the records of Putin's conversations with Zelenskyy (which are published on the Kremlin website) actually show that Russia's "peacekeeping" argument for military intervention in Ukraine was strongest in 2014-2016, weakened between then and July 2019, and ceased to have any validity after Christmas 2019.
Prior to the invasion start, CNN was reporting on the numerous ceasefire violations.
“The violations continued on Thursday. A resident of the city of Donetsk — which is controlled by the separatists — told CNN that shelling in her district had been the heaviest in two years. There was no clarity on where that fire had originated from.
Now CNN were playing the game of “we don’t know where the shelling is coming from.” Just like the Zeepers on this Board.
Look.
You want ot cheer on Ukraine, fine. But don’t insult our intelligence by pretending to believe that the DPR and LPR were shelling their own residential districts for TEN YEARS !
And the shelling just co-incidently ended with Ukraine being pushed out of range.
Thanks for that load of BS, I skimmed it. I’m not a Putin fan, but I know a BS war when I see one. Trillions of $ wasted by the USA, and now we are weakened and low on war material. The USA is the King of half-baked war fighting and losing.
Ukraine isn’t in NATO, it’s just our puppet for driving graft.