Posted on 10/11/2024 6:50:13 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
In Kherson, a frontline Ukrainian city, small Russian drones have been hunting civilians for months. Like birds of prey, they chase their targets and either drop explosives upon them or self-detonate in kamikaze strikes. Lacking effective countermeasures, locals say they are living in a “human safari” — nowhere is safe anymore. This is the dystopian future of war that may yet come to the West, should great power conflicts proliferate.
Kherson sits on the Dnipro River in south Ukraine, by the Black Sea coast. Once home to almost 300,000 people, the port city was liberated after months of Russian occupation in late 2022. Since then, Moscow’s troops have waited across the river, less than a kilometre away from the city’s shores, and besieged residents with incessant artillery, missile and sniper attacks.
Even so, parts of Kherson remained somewhat safe until recently, according to Zarina Zabrisky, a freelance American journalist who has lived in the city for months. As Russian attacks came from the south, residents simply hid on the other side of their buildings and relocated to north-facing apartments.
But everything changed in late May, when the Russians began sending in small drones. “I couldn’t recognize the city by July because of the number of attacks, which changed the dynamics of life here completely. You cannot step outside safely,” said Zabrisky.
Small drones have already been widely deployed throughout Ukraine’s front lines by both sides. Yet over the past few months, they have increasingly been used by Russia, along with countries like Syria, to terrorize noncombatants.
In Kherson, the drones fly approximately 120 metres above the ground and then, after descending upon a suitable target, either drop explosives — including grenades, landmines and napalm — or complete a kamikaze strike.
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The IF a big one. And, the Ukrainians have been targeting civilians in Donetsk for 10 years.
But to answer the question -- because the Russians are capable of destroying THE ENTIRE ELECTRIC GRID in Ukraine and flooding Europe with refugees.
Actually, it’s not. Civilians support war efforts top to bottom. In the “good ole days” of armies meeting on the field of battle hitting civilians was more frowned upon, but in the 21st century it is the norm because they support the fighters, pay the taxes, work in the arms factories and vote into power the people deciding war is the decision to be made.
We killed civilians in job lots in WWII and if there had been a widespread distaste for it, it would have at the least greatly lengthened it if not cost the Allies victory.
There are conflicts going on right now where combatants purposely integrate their force structure deeply among civilian populations and infrastructure. It would be suicidal for an opposition force to attempt their operations while making a maximum effort to avoid killing the civilians. The flip side of that is that if you are a civilian you need to make maximum effort for rational peace when your military and political leadership decides it’s in their best interest to go after a target polity which possesses equal to or significantly stronger military capability.
You are right.
It is not “The” Ukraine.
It is “The” YouCrayne.
“If Russians are attacking and terrorizing civilians in Kherson, why not attack and kill maim Russian civilians in Moscow with Brot Stormshadow missiles? F*ck them up good and spread terror? Is fair fair? If not why?”
Why sink to their level? That’s just revenge, not justice. That’s what it has come down to. Just murdering civilians in your stupid ethnic border war. Is that what you want?
LOL this is pretty desperate. Projection: accuse others of what you yourself are doing.
+2
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Sod Off, Swampy, as the old saying goes.
It is not. It is so sad what we all have sunk to. All so un necessary. So many dead. Forever. Is there no end? Is there no peace? What can satisfy an end to this? How could we have gotten to this place? And how do we walk it back? Brother vs brother?
How can this end please? How many people have to die still, in a pointless exercise? How can the end be seen?
Shotguns.
Putin can take his army back to Russia. That would end things.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki???
The fire bombing of Tokyo was just as horrendous
Same tactics we’ve seen on dozens of videos of UKRs bravely fending off entrenched and mounted/dismounted Russians, etc.
Half a world away the Allies firebombed Dresden to similar effect.
It has always been The Ukraine. It is soon to be known as The Former Ukraine. Put that in your empty sack.
It would indeed. At anytime. Since Putin doesn’t seem inclined to do that at all or anytime soon, what would change his mind?
I’m interested in any and all suggestions.
“You do realize there’s millions of lurkers that see this.”
You do realize that you are exaggerating, right?
Not true, but, then again, no one cares. Really, no one.
We call us the United States.
chill
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