All the Kings Men are here it seems.
[QUOTE=Tiny12;2929181]Blood Red is a strong contributor to the UAE / Dubai threads. There's no way he's a paid propagandist. [/QUOTE]Take a good look at all the reinforcements that have arrived here literally overnight, old and new, including the trolls you've never seen here before. Still believe BR just happens to be a selfless, passionate madman who just must defend Russia and Putin against all odds on a mongering forum?
Here is a (woefully) incomplete timline of Russia murdering civilians in Ukraine
Look, I understand why the latest bombing of the Kyiv Children Hospital is seen as an extraordinary event. The pure evil of this premeditated act makes it harder for those Russophiles and useful idiots in the West to look away and come up with their regular bothsider excuses.
But in reality, killing Ukrainian civilians -- including children, women and elderly -- is no big deal for Putin's Russia. They've been doing it for over two years, and they're completely comfortable with their methods. Seriously, what happened on July 8 is nothing extraordinary for those -- hmm, biological entities.
Just look at this war timeline (the sources are below). And keep in mind, it does NOT include any killings in the areas the Russians are currently occupying. That's more than likely going to add thousands upon thousands of victims when Ukraine has liberated its territory.
28 Feb. 2022 - 16 May 2022.
Russian siege of Mariupol: at least 8,034 deaths; likely up to 75,000.
3 Mar. 2022.
Invading Russian forces fire grenade launchers on a column of evacuating civilians between Motyzhyn and Yasnohorodka, killing 37 people.
9 Mar. 2022.
Russian airstrikes on a Mariupol maternity ward and children's hospital kill five people.
11 Mar. 2022.
A Russian tank kills 56 people at a nursing home in Kreminna.
16 Mar. 2022.
Donetsk.
A Russian airstrike on a Mariupol theater kills 300 sheltering civilians.
29 Mar. 2022.
A Russian airstrike on a regional administration building in Mykolaiv city kills 36 civilians.
1 Apr. 2022.
[QUOTE]Since Russian forces were pushed back from Kyiv at the end of March, the bodies of more than 1,000 civilians have been discovered in the Bucha region - many hastily buried in shallow graves. The BBC has learned that around 650 people were shot in what a senior police official has described as executions. [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]On 8 August 2022, officials released a count of civilian deaths in the town of Bucha alone: 458 bodies419 with signs of shooting, torture, or violent traumaand 39 of apparently natural causes but being scrutinized for their relationship to the Russian occupation. 366 were male, 86 female, and five of indiscernible gender due to their condition. Nine were children. 50 bodies remained unidentified, along with body parts and ash.[/QUOTE]The revelation of massacres of civilians in Bucha, Borodyanka, and Irpin suburbs of Kyiv city ends peace talks.
8 Apr. 2022.
A Russian missile carrying cluster munitions kills 57 people boarding an evacuation train in Kramatorsk.
7 May 2022.
A Russian airstrike kills 60 civilians sheltering at a school in Bilohorivka.
16 May 2022.
Russian forces capture Mariupol.
27 Jun. 2022.
A Russian missile strike on a shopping mall in Kremenchuk kills 20 civilians.
1 Jul. 2022.
A Russian airstrike on residential areas of Serhiivka kills 21 civilians.
9 Jul. 2022.
A Russian artillery strike on Chasiv Yar kills 48 civilians.
14 Jul. 2022.
A Russian missile strike on a concert hall in Vinnytsia city kills 25 civilians.
Unidentified explosion kills over 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russian-held Olenivka.
25 Sep. 2022.
Russian forces kill 50 civilians attempting to evacuate from Kupiansk.
14 Jan. 2023.
A Russian missile strike on an apartment building in Dnipro city kills 46 civilians.
28 Apr. 2023.
A Russian missile hits an apartment building in Uman, killing 24 civilians.
3 May 2023.
Russian shelling of Kherson city kills 24 civilians.
13 Jun. 2023.
A Russian missile strike hits an apartment building in Kryvyi Rih, killing 13 civilians.
27 Jun. 2023.
A Russian missile strike on a restaurant in Kramatorsk kills 13 civilians.
6 Jul. 2023.
A Russian missile strike on a residential building in Lviv kills 10 civilians.
7 Aug. 2023.
Russian shelling of residential areas in Pokrovsk kills 10 civilians and wounds 82 others.
19 Aug. 2023.
A Russian missile strike on a drone exhibition kills seven civilians and wounds 150 others.
5 Oct. 2023.
Russian missile strike kills 59 civilians at a wake luncheon in Hroza.
29 Dec. 2023.
Russian missile and drone strikes kill 32 civilians in Kyiv city and two dozen others across the country.
6 Jan. 2024.
A Russian missile strike on Pokrovsk kills 11 civilians.
7 Feb. 2024.
Russian missile and drone strikes kill four and wound 40 others in Kyiv city.
2 Mar. 2024.
Odesa.
A Russian drone strike on a residential building in Odesa city kills 12 civilians.
15 Mar. 2024.
A Russian ballistic missile strike kills 21 people in central Odesa city.
17 Apr. 2024.
A Russian ballistic missile strike on Chernihiv city kills 18 civilians.
[QUOTE]According to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU), 703 civilians were killed or injured in April 2024, rising to 864 casualties in May a 31 per cent month-over-month increase in fatalities and the highest level since June 2023.[/QUOTE]8 Jul. 2024.
Kyiv, Kryvyi Rih, Dnipro, Pokrovsk, Kropyvnytskyi Massive attack against several Ukrainian cities including a Kyiv children hospital leaves at least 36 dead, 140 wounded, and the wounded keep dying.
Sources:
[URL]https://www.hrw.org/feature/russia-ukraine-war-mariupol/counting-the-dead[/URL]
[URL]https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/20-days-in-mariupol-filmmaker-q-and-a[/URL]
[URL]https://acleddata.com/ukraine-conflict-monitor/[/URL]#timeline.
[URL]https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/ukraine-situation-report-12-july-2024-enuk[/URL]#.
[URL]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61442387[/URL]
[URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre[/URL]#cite_note-NYT-Gall-94.
[URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre[/URL]#cite_note-WaPo-Sly-95.
It's not that easy, although not complicated either.
[QUOTE=VinDici;2929515]Russia is targeting civilians, it has been proven time and again. They have a keen interest in doing it, why? Because they are Russian and have no morals. [/QUOTE]You're correct that Russian servicemen aren't exactly paragons of virtue. Most come from tough backgrounds and grow up in poverty, far away from big cities. They keep their heads down, follow orders and suck up to their local bosses, so a power trip like this one is intoxicating.
But there's a big difference between killings on the ground and deliberately targeting civilians en masse, like on July 8th. Here, Russia's using a tactic straight out of a terrorist playbook: scare the living shit out of everyone in hope that Ukrainians crack and pressure Kyiv to just give in. A strike on a children's hospital is simply another tool in their arsenal. As I mentioned before, this war's been a nightmare for children from the get-go. The Mariupol theater bombing killed hundreds. So the message they're sending is crystal clear: surrender or keep digging your kids out of the rubble.
Will it work? Probably not. Hitler's Blitz didn't break the Brits, and the Allies bombing Dresden to oblivion didn't make the Germans fold either. If Russia were capable of learning from history, they would know that their extreme brutality will only make Ukraine fight harder.
On the other hand, had they been capable of learning, they wouldn't have started this disastrous war.