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.
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…
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.
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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Olena Halushka (Ukrainian journalist and co-founder of the International Center for Ukrainian Victory) inadvertently corroborates rumors that today's missile/bomb strike in Groza, Kharkov targeted an off-duty gathering of Euromaidan militants.
Rumor has it, the gathering was a memorial honoring an Aidar Battalion leader, and high ranking officials for the militant group (who have now been legitimized as an official Ukrainian military unit) were in attendance.
If true, then this was a legitimate military target, and not a war crime against civiians as is being reported by Ukrainian officials.
Add @KeirGiles to the list of intellectually dishonest academics who write rhetorical garbage and blatant lies about how we mustn't let Russia exploit the truth. politico.eu/article/fight-…
Prof Giles wants people to believe the Galicia SS were innocent boy scouts... despite what they did in Huta Pieniacka. thefirstnews.com/article/we-mus…
I'm pretty sure that if the Russians have captured 10,000 POW's since launching their escape radio channel, the Red Cross in Russia would be able to verify that number. I just did a quick search to see whether they've given anyone a statement about this, and I see that Euromaidanists are currently running an influence campaign to discredit Red Cross workers who have access to those POW's. This has me believing that what we're hearing is true, but the Ukrainians are taking steps to ensure that their audience won't believe the one organization who could verify the rumors.
Here's the video that's circulating to try and discredit International Red Cross Workers. Ukrainian soldier returned to Ukraine in prisoner exchange alleges that Red Cross workers made fun of them.
English speaking spokesperson for the Ukrainian military: Ukraine will hunt down "Russian propagandists" around the world.
The announcement came ahead of the criminal trial of Chilean-American journalist Gonzalo Lira who has been charged with, "justifying Russia's aggression, denying/glorifying Russian war crimes, and undermining Ukraine's leadership and Defense Forces." helsinkitimes.fi/world-int/2351…
Upon his original arrest, the SBU claimed that Lira had, "... denied the crimes of the Russian Federation and insulted Ukrainian defenders."
The Russian pilot who murdered his flight mates and delivered the helicopter he was flying to the Ukrainian government was paid half a million US bucks to do so. euromaidanpress.com/2023/09/05/ukr…
Original report from Ukraine's military intelligence broadcast, starts at 53:08.
Ukraine's military confirms that the defector's two crew mates were killed, but they don't say by who. What they and the defector do say, and what can be seen in the video and read from statements...
Euromaidan government admits: Most (almost two-thirds of) UA citizens who have left and not returned to the country since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war went to Russia, tho' they still insist on calling Russia-bound evacuations, "deportations". euromaidanpress.com/2023/08/17/gov…
The "kidnapping" narrative their propaganda machine previously spun is starting to unravel.
People complaining about "UN disinformation" need to wake up. The Euromaidan government says people who flee to Russia don't count and your Jingofried brains follow suit. Stop acting like mind-controlled zombies, please.