Thread by @xenasolo

So @amnesty decided to release a little piece which at best misrepresents, and at worst directly attacks Ukrainian army. Now, @amnesty is a free organisation of a free world where one is totally free to be a russian asset if one wishes. However, let’s clarify a couple of things.

The selective virtue-signalling is a convenient tool through which organisations that were useful decades ago, if ever, try to remain relevant in modern age. It allows them to imitate important activity while avoiding taking any risks, like confronting the aggressor.

For instance, going to the occupied territories and witnessing people that commit some of the worst crimes imaginable would most likely result in international investigators’ death and will thus prevent them from being bribed in the future. Now, nobody wants that.

It is defo much easier to observe from the side whose military you trust to abide by the rules, isn’t it. Otherwise you wouldn’t be here. It’s thus easy to nitpick cause a)they won’t punch you in the throat, & b)they’re too busy bleeding and dying for their country to care ab you

Last time @amnesty wrote about Kharkiv was in June. That’s the city that gets shelled *every* *single* *day*. Not a word about Mykolaiv — a ~500.000 people city under everyday Russian shellings. It’s also been w/o running water for 114 days cause of it. Nothing.

Instead of going to Mykolaiv and bringing some water bottles with you (just not the water Red Cross brings all the way from Romania to Dnipro, that’s only good for when you are laundering donations money 👆), you decided to discredit UA army.

Now, that’s totally up to you: dying Ukrainian civilians won’t get you as many clicks from Rus trolls and useful idiots. Congrats, btw, I’m sure Skabeeva will mention your piece in her next show while bragging abt Rus troops staying in residential areas of Donbas on purpose:

https://twitter.com/den_kazansky/status/1552632463175946240

The full-scale invasion has been marked by indiscriminate russian shellings of civilians from the very beginning. For many of us, this chapter of the war began from explosions in our cities, and these explosions accompanied by sirens is now a part of our everyday existence.

Russians ‘attacking only military’ is a myth. Soviet military-industrial complex existed *within* towns and cities, partially to provide for the area (it creates jobs), partially of necessity (like when some factories were evacuated from affected areas to Central Asia in WWII).

Russians know it, and when they don’t know, they don’t care. They use outdated Soviet maps and attack areas from which military quarters/factories are long gone. Why attack them anyways while using maps from the 60s? Because terror is a huge part of it.

Attack on “house of officers” in Vinnytsia was not about officers. These places are not even military objects anymore, they are cultural centres/concert halls (the one in Vinnytsia was latter). Russians know it. They don’t care.

That’s what it looks like now btw. Russians hit the centre of the city, killed dozens of people and then used the fact that the building is called “the house of officers” to justify it.

Getting Ukrainian soldiers out of all of the urban areas would mean a) giving up said areas to Russia, b) literally nothing else. Russia will continue attacks whenever and however it sees fit until we get proper air defence (including planes). They attack because they can.

Despite the fact that @amnesty would like for this war to be fought in a specially designated area, it’s fought *everywhere*. In the forests, in the air, in the cities, in the fields and in the water. It’s a genocidal war of aggression meant to erase Ukraine from existence.

(I sincerely hope that @amnesty doesn’t accidentally look up the definition of ‘urban fighting’, that might actually give them a stroke)

Now, @amnesty admits that there’s no special regulation from a yet another ridiculously useless convention (Is that too rude? Ok, then let’s put it this way — “conventions as useful as the UN”, that’s better) that would prohibit UA troops from staying in empty schools.

However, @amnesty would prefer them not to. Amnesty advices UA soldiers to go fight in the field. You know what’s the problem with that? First, russia doesn’t want the fields, it wants the cities. Second of all, it covers the fields with rounds of artillery, just like this:

If the UA army leaves our cities to be torn to pieces by Rus artillery (10:1 superiority Russians have, just a reminder) in an open field, will you defend them then, @amnesty? Will the UN defend them? Will Red Cross whip out fighting water bottles and show us some water-bending?

No, you won’t. Our only hope at _continuing to exist_ is our army and the weapons that it receives from the allies. Not some international organisation, all of which have proven to be useless to us during the last 8 years. The moment we are occupied we cease to exist for you lot.

(I see your total of 1,5 materials about Crimea. No wonder the world is under impression Crimea just sort of drifted away peacefully! Imagine uttering more than 10 words about all the disappearances, all the people found dead, all of us who had to flee! You guys could never)

The problem is not getting UA soldiers out of the urban areas, it’s — quite frankly, dealing with Russia, but that’s out of your league, let’s settle for second best — to get the civilians out. Civilians that very often refuse, can’t and won’t leave.

You choose to ignore the fact that the UA army cannot force them to evacuate. You pretend like UA army never helps them (that’s a plain and simple lie). You ignore all the instances of the civilians _wanting_ the army there (because the only alternative is the russian occupation)

Recently, a full evacuation from Donetsk region was announced. Evacuating children has become significantly easier. All of this takes time and legislation because — did you know?! — it’s illegal to force people out of their houses. Good morning, sunshine, the Earth says hello! 🎉

Lastly. Drawing a big red line between soldiers and civilians might be something that you do from your moral high horse of a ‘well, I will never have to fight, I’ll sit in my cozy office and quietly believe that my life is superior to the one of a soldier because I can use Excel’

However, this is not the case. Soldier’s life is just as precious as mine of yours. And here, in Ukraine, *anyone* can become a soldier. People quietly come to terms with a fact that most of us will have to be enrolled in a military service in one way or another, and very soon.

An attempt to depict our military as a threat to us, an attempt to discredit our military is a direct attack on all of us because not only they are a part of us — they are the best of the best we have to offer.

Here’s one of the ways to help the Ukrainian Army: the most recent fundraiser by @UkraineAidOps. They are raising funds to purchase night vision equipment, crucial for the units to ‘have eyes’ & see the enemy at night. Thank you!

Their link:
donorbox.org/night-vision-f…

https://twitter.com/UkraineAidOps/status/1554852679616237570