All civilian deaths are tragic, but Ukraine and the West are overestimating Russia's "brutality". The number is also probably below 2%, since Ukraine is under reporting their KIA's. Moreover, many civilian deaths are Ukraine's fault, since they keep putting people in harm's way.
Compare this to the civilian to combatant death rate in Donbass in the eight years prior: 3.4k/14.4k=23%.
It isn't Russia who has been indiscriminately killing civilians.
Amnesty investigated claims of Russia targeting civilians and found that the Ukrainian military was endangering people's lives with their military tactics. The technical term for what Ukraine does: Using civilians as human shields... which is a #WarCrime. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
NYT inadvertently admits that Russia's "widespread" bombing campaigns of critical infrastructure has resulted in low civilian casualties and minimal collateral damage. nytimes.com/2022/10/11/wor…
NYT weirdly tries to frame this fact as if it demonstrates ineptness on Russia's part. Strange post-truth logic.
The Ukrainian military has also been carrying out extrajudicial executions of their own citizens. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
And Ukrainian civilians have been killing other civilians for dumb shit... like speaking with a Russian or East Ukrainian accent. nypost.com/2022/03/02/ukr…
People need to stop laying cover for Ukraine's fascist regime.
ICYMI:
Thread about #Bucha.
Rape. Castration. Mass murder. Ukraine's mirror propaganda.
Revisiting the numbers in the first tweet, I don't know the numbers he is basing the 300k+ UA KIA's on, however... I'm guessing it's based on official UA numbers and adding a zero (since Arestovych admitted UA moves the decimal pt one digit to the left for their numbers).
There is a factual basis for doing this. At the end of October, UA was reporting 10k KIA, but the US said it was 100k.
When recently confronted about their numbers, and asked to give a true number, the UA government says they cannot disclose their real numbers, for morale purposes. aa.com.tr/en/russia-ukra…
300k is a huge number. But here's why it's plausible: washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/…
And the meatgrinder on the Bakhmut front is even worse than the one on the Kherson front was.
In June, it was estimated that Ukraine was suffering 1000 casualties a day, including 500 KIA's daily. That was in June, and the battles have been much more deadly since then. axios.com/2022/06/15/ukr…
And here's the worse thing about who is dying on the front lines: The unwilling. Ukraine is using its military draft to send their undesirables into a meat grinder. archive.ph/rwy4I
And they're using barrier troops that prevent those men from retreating from the front lines.
They're even welding the hatches shut on tanks.
I don't think I was off the mark when I said it is plausible that UA has 300k+ KIA's. Stratfor is estimating 305,000, and the Ukrainian government's latest announced stats say 232,000.
According to Hungarian newspapers, part of Ukraine's unreported KIA's are being held in refrigerated train cars on the Ukraine-Hungary border. english.pravda.ru/news/hotspots/…
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