In Syria, "it was Russian air power that changed the game. And they wielded their air power in a devastating way, where they were targeting not just rebel positions but markets, hospitals, schools, with, in many cases, huge civilian casualties". newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/r…
"Isis, of course, was quite brutal, but the other jihadi groups that were anti-isis and anti-regime certainly did commit crimes, but I think nothing on the scale that the Syrian regime or the Russians committed. And so the Russian massacres were numerous."
"The UN shared a list of hospitals and clinics in Idlib Province with the Syrian government and the Russians basically in the hopes of getting the Russians to avoid accidentally hitting these places. And, instead, the Russians used this list to target these hospitals."
"So it was part of the Russian strategy—to attack hospitals. And that was, I think, partly to break the morale of not just the rebel movement but the population."
"I saw hospitals that were underground because the Russians would target anything that looked like a humanitarian center or a hospital."
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