Ethnic Russian kid in Donbas after being shelled by Ukrainians in 2015
Welcome to the peace initiative for Ukraine in which you can contibute by raising your awareness as well as your consciousness[+] and spirit to the modes[+] of neutrality[*], decency, respectfulness, wisdom[*], objectivity, mastery of the intellect, surrender (ego and mind to God’s will), and finally peace (inner then outer). To properly grasp everything, we recommend reading the articles of this peace initiative in the order that we[*] designed it, which is listed in the Contents. So if you haven’t read the previous articles, we urge you to do it, please. Did you read the Intro to this “Beware of Propaganda” segment? Please, do so for a better grasp of the topic of this article.
Ukrainians shell civilian targets almost every day but, unlike when Ukrainian civilians get killed by Russians, Western officials and mass media do not condemn any of it, which is a clear case of double standards and no concern for civilian lives. Obviously, deaths of civilians are used only for propaganda purposes to condemn Russians and portray them as evil; other than that over 23.000 ethnic Russian civilians being killed by Ukrainians since 2014 (around 14.000[+][+][+] from 2014-2022 and more than 9.000 from February 2022 – June 2023[+][+][+][+][+][»] plus many more since then) are no concern of the West.
As a matter of fact, Ukraine is using Western weapons[+] for terror attacks on civilians and the West approves of it calling it their right to delf defense, similar to how they approve Israeli Army to kill civilians in Gaza and elsewhere.
US reporter Patrick Lancaster made this video titled “USA Tax Payers Funding Ukraine Shelling Civilians”
Also, the West is silent as Ukraine targets civilians in Donetsk using banned ‘Petal’ mines[+].
There are countless reports even from Western pro-Ukrainian sources about Ukrainians deliberately targeting civilians which is a war crime, but these reports do not make it on the front pages of Western mainstream media which is only willing to report when Russians accidentally kill civilians.
For instance, Human Rights Watch has reported[+][+][+][+][»] that Ukraine used cluster munitions against civilians in Russian-held Donetsk city and Izyum. And here[»], HRW reports about Ukrainian forces targeting civilians with grad rockets that should not be used in populated areas due to imprecision.
In 2014, Al-Jazeera (follows the same agenda as BBC, Reuters and AP) reported and filmed Ukrainian forces targeting civilians here[»]. WSJ showed[»] evidence that Ukrainian troops used cluster bombs to kill civilians.
Here is, for instance, a video confirmation[»] of a Ukrainian soldier admitting and regretting to deliberately murdering innocent civilians in Mariupol on the orders of his commander.
Here is one video evidence[»] of Ukrainians dropping grenades on civilians in Donetsk city. There is not a single shred of evidence of Russians doing such atrocities. When Ukrainian civilians get killed by Russians it is only by accident during missile or drone strikes on military targets, which civilians use. To avoid that, most of Russian strikes are during night, when no civilians should be there.
Here is another video evidence[»] of Ukrainian army killing 6 of their own citizens because they wanted to escape to Russia! Zelensky’s soldiers kill their own civilians happily, because these Donbass people want to live as they always lived for centuries instead of submitting to the Bandera cult.
Ukrainian authorities give medals to those who shell civilians! In this video[»], Ukrainian military speaks out openly: "I want to offer the Ukrainian artillerists medals to those who shell the city, the houses and the civilian population…"
Further video evidence[»] indicates that the targeting of civilians is a central purpose of the U.S.-funded Ukrainian war campaign.
Constant claims by Russian authorities that they were not the ones who killed civilians are dismissed by the West (but not by the rest of the world) as lies or propaganda. However, more and more evidence has been surfacing about the Ukrainian air defense missiles accidentally killing civilians in Ukrainian-controlled areas and Ukrainian military and security services killing Ukrainian civilians who are pro-Russian or “Russian collaborators”[+].
Let’s not forget, that more than half of Ukrainians were pro-Russian and voting for pro-Russian president and party before the whole conflict began in 2014, as Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) polls[+][+][+] show, and elections’ results prove[+][+] (pro-Russian parties and presidential candidates won the majority, not counting the undemocratic regime changes of the Orange and Maidan revolutions).
Here is evidence[ꚛ] given by Ukrainians – a photo in which they blurred the missile on the ground – why would Ukraine need to blur missile parts? Because it was friendly fire, an Ukrainian missile. As everybody who is not fanatical Ukrainian MoD believer knows, Ukrainian anti air missiles misfunction sometimes.
First of all, Ukrainians were the first who started murdering innocent civilians (Russian ethnic minorities in Donbas1) in 2014 killing more than 23.000 civilians (around 14.000[+][+][+] from 2014-2022 and more than 9.000 from February 2022 – June 2023[+][+][+][+][+][»] plus many more since then) and destroying countless civilian buildings, including residential properties, schools, kindergartens, and hospitals but for some peculiar reason, no one is condemning them let alone holding them accountable for their war crimes and no Western MSM reports any of it as they should!
The Geneva Conventions and additional protocols shaped by international courts say that parties involved in a military conflict must distinguish between "civilian objects and military objectives" and that attacks on civilian objects are forbidden. Therefore, if Russians are charged for their war crimes, then Ukrainians ought to be too, otherwise the whole “international justice system” is biased, unfair, unjust, and generally flawed, which generates hostility towards the US, UN, and NATO states. According to The Geneva Conventions, military objectives may include civilian infrastructures. Power infrastructure has long been considered a valid military objective, thus Russia's strikes on the power infrastructure are not considered a war crime by law but the mass media informs the public otherwise, distorting the facts. Yet, ever since 2014, the Ukrainian army has been “attacking civilians intentionally while aware of their civilian status”, which is a war crime, as well as committing "acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population" in Donbas, which is forbidden under international humanitarian law and was confirmed as a war crime by rulings of the UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia relating to the siege of Sarajevo but not in Donbas for some reason. Raise your brow if these double standards seem fishy.
No doubt, many civilians have died as a consequence of Russian missile strikes but if you allow us, we will now provide evidence that more civilians have died as a consequence of Ukrainian attacks than Russian ones. And there is not a single instance in which Russians came and deliberately killed civilians with guns or anything like that (as civilians usually get killed during missile and drone strikes).
Ukrainians have blamed Russians for only one such instance in Bucha but, as mounting evidence[*] proves, it was Ukrainian neo-Nazis that did that massacre, not Russians because they wanted to blame it on Russians to prevent Zelensky to sign a peace agreement with Russians at the time and the massacred people had white armbands, which was a designation that they were Russian collaborators. But much more evidence for the Bucha massacre is coming up in the “Russia did it” article[*].
Unlike Ukrainians who massacred thousands of ethnic Russian civilians, Russians never massacred any civilians (although there have been many unintentional civilian casualties of shelling and missile strikes, many of them caused by Ukrainian AD2 missiles).
an air strike was carried out on the village of Stanitsa Luganskaya by the Ukrainian Air Force in July 2014
Ukrainians (Ukraine Special Forces SAFARI, SBU, and neo-Nazi Azov battalion[+]) even massacred their own people in Bucha[*] just because they deemed them as Russian collaborators[+][+]3 (because they accepted Russian humanitarian relief) to blame it on “evil” Russia and so enrage and prevent Zelensky to proceed with already signed draft of the peace agreement. They and the likes of them have been doing the same in many other towns[+][+][+][+][+][+][+][+][+][+][+][»][»], including the Sniper Massacre on Maidan in Kyiv on 20 February 2014 and the Odesa massacre[»]on 2 May 2014, as well as almost 14.000[+][+][+] ethnic Russian civilians in Donbas, killing all Ukrainians whom they deem (without a court verdict) as Russian collaborators[+], either as revenge, or to blame it on Russians to discredit them for killing civilians, or as a warning to others who might express pro-Russian attitude. So, they are killing their own Ukrainian civilians just because they are ethnic Russian or pro-Russian, as opposed to pro-West, which according to pre-war polls[+][+][+] and elections’ results[+][+]accounted for more than half of Ukraine. And guess who gets automatically blamed whenever Ukrainian civilians get killed? Right. So, don't be too quick to buy into it; take all such accusations with a big grain of salt.
an air strike was carried out on the village of Stanitsa Luganskaya by the Ukrainian Air Force in July 2014
From 24 February 2022 until 30 July 2023, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has recorded[+] 26.015 civilian casualties in the whole of Ukraine, including 9.369 killed and 16.646 injured on both sides (updated numbers here[+]). In territory controlled by Kyiv, there were 21.008 civilian casualties – 7.283 killed and 13.725 injured while in territory controlled by the Russian Federation, there were 5.007 civilian casualties – 2.086 killed and 2.921 injured, which they noted it might be considerably higher and it does not correspond with figures from Russian authorities. Since the UN is ruled by NATO countries and its institutions are pro-NATO/Ukraine45, they are concealing the fact that Ukrainians kill more civilians than Russians do.
IMPORTANT note from OHCHR: “OHCHR believes that the actual figures are considerably higher, as the receipt of information from some locations where intense hostilities have been going on has been delayed and many reports are still pending corroboration.”This concerns locations in the territories under Russian control, which means that OHCHR reports mainly casualties in Kyiv-controlled territory while disregarding the ethnic Russian civilian casualties with the excuse of "still pending corroboration". Clearly, they do not want the world to know how many ethnic Russian civilians is Ukraine killing!
Besides them admitting that the figures might be considerably higher, here is some more evidence from Russian authorities (not delayed and not pending corroboration):
Until 30 July 2023, Russian authorities evidenced more than 8.000 civilians killed in just Donetsk and Luhansk provinces (inflicted by Ukrainians) – more than as 4.630[+] civilians have been killed alone in the Donetsk province, plus over 3.000 civilians were killed just in the Severodonetsk region of the Luhansk province until 4 May 2023[+] and who knows how many in the whole of Luhansk. They did not publish casualties by then in Zaporozhzhia, Kherson, and Crimea regions, but OHCHR reported[+] 1.328 killed and 280 injured in territory occupied by Russia outside Donetsk and Luhansk, which means they are considerably higher but if we only take just that (4.630 + 3.000 + 1.328+), it would mean more than 9.000 killed ethnic Russian civilians from February 2022 - July 2023. Plus 14.000 from April 2014 - February 2022.
OHCHR reported only 2.086 killed but they did mention that they believe that the actual figures in Russian-controlled territory are considerably higher, as the reports are “still pending corroboration”. In other words, they are restricting Russian civilian casualties to conceal the fact that Ukrainians kill more civilians than Russians do. OHCHR reported 7.283 killed on Ukrainian side and Russians with OHCHR reported more than 9.000 killed civilians on their side, which indicates that Ukrainians kill more civilians than Russians do! Not to mention other 14.000 ethnic Russian civilians killed from 2014-Feb 2022! And the ratio is even worse for Ukraine as it shows Ukrainians are more cruel. In Kyiv-governed territories there is more than 30 million people where 7.283 were killed whereas in Russian-controlled areas, there are less than 5 million people living where more than 9.000 civilians were killed!
Residents of Donetsk take a victim out of a bus in wake of Ukrainian shelling of a bus stop in the city's Leninsky district. January 2015.
Anyway we turn it, it always turns out that Ukrainians kills more civilians than Russians do, such as in this one selected period (because this was written in Feb 2024):
Just in the first one and half month of 2024, from 1 January – 15 February 2024[+], Ukrainian attacks killed 150 Russian civilians and injured 500 more, which was 650 civilian casualties on Russian side (caused by Ukrainians), as reported by Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large in charge of overseeing the Kyiv regime’s crimes.
In the same time period, Russian attacks killed 129 Ukrainian civilians and injured 492 more, which was 621 civilian casualties on Ukrainian side (caused by Russians), as reported by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU).
Also, Ukrainians kill civilians in Russia, such as in the Bryansk[+], Kursk, and Belgorod[+][+] borderline regions plus some prominent civilians[»][+][+][+] elsewhere in Russia, which OHCHR & HRMMU are not even taking into account just because it is not in Ukraine.
For instance, just in first three months of 2024, indiscriminate Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory have caused 922 Russian civilian casualties (59 casualties among children) – 201 were killed, including 11 children, and 721 injured, a senior Foreign Ministry official has said[+]. In that period, Kyiv had fired at least 22.000 rounds of ammunition – most of which was supplied by the West
US reporter Patrick Lancaster made this video titled “Proof Ukraine again used western supplied weapons to kill civilians.”
In a video dated 13 March 2022, “day 17 of Russo-Ukrainian war,” Ukrainian Channel 24 TV presenter and shameless journalist, Fahruddin Sharafmal said[+] also: “By killing children, they will never grow up and the nation will disappear… and I hope that everyone will contribute and kill at least one Moskal.” Another co-host did not try to stop Sharafmal on the air though she had an opportunity to do so. Ukrainan journalists who openly call for killing children and civilians and cite Nazis are not persecuted for hate speech and dissemination of information that glorifies, calls for or justifies international crimes, call for the mass extermination of a certain category of the population, which is regarded as a war crime, a crime against humanity or genocide - clear proof neo-Nazis rule Ukraine
By 1 June 2023, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine[+] reported[+] that a total of 535 children were killed and 1.047 injured since February 2022 but they did not distinguish between Ukrainian and Russian-controlled areas or between Ukrainian and Russian perpetrators, and they disregard hundreds of ethnic Russian kids killed between 2014-2022. The Prosecutor-General of Ukraine stated[+] that most of these casualties came from Donetsk, which means that most of those casualties are ethnic Russian children inflicted by Ukraine. Ukrainians bombard the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk, for instance, every day, whereby they inflict civilian casualties all the time, including children, as reported by TASS daily[+]. Ukrainians kill civilians in other Russian-controlled regions all the time, even in Russia, such as the Bryansk[+] and Belgorod[+][+] regions. From 2014 until 27 September 2023, a total of 65 children were killed and 186 were injured in Ukrainian shelling of LPR, according to LPR Commissioner for Children’s Rights Inna Shvenk[+]. The DPR mission to the Joint Coordination and Control Center on Ukrainian war crimes reported that, since 2014, a total of 228 children were killed and about 800 were injured in the Donetsk Republic. By May 2015[+], 158 Donbas children (ethnic Russians) were killed by the Ukrainian military. As of July 20, 2023, the number of children killed only on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) for the entire period of Ukraine's armed aggression is 228, and 792 were injured, according to the DPR's commissioner for human rights, Darya Morozova[+]. As the UN Mission reports, the vast majority – 87 percent – of the casualties were caused by “explosive weapons with wide area effects”, including artillery, missile and air strikes, and drones. To be fair, we should divide the number of 535 killed children in half, which would mean that around 268 children died as a result of Russian strikes. Most certainly, this is a lot but if we compare it to the number of children that the US-led coalition killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is much less and no American or European children were killed while Russian kids were.
Ethnic Russian kid in Donbas after being shelled by Ukrainians in 2015
· In Iraq, over 9,000 children were killed or maimed (3,119 killed and 5,938 maimed) from 2008 to the end of 2022.[+]
· In Afghanistan, according to UNICEF[+], 28.500 children were killed over 16 years – that is 1.781 per year. Almost 33,000 children[+] have been killed and maimed over the 20 years, an average of one child every five hours and this number does not include children who have died due to hunger, poverty, and disease during war, caused by the war.
Another thing they don’t tell you about civilian casualties is that the faulty Ukrainian air defense is often responsible for killing its own civilians. All civilian buildings that were struck with S-300 missiles were blamed[+][+][ꚛ] on Russians but Ukrainian AD hit them as Russia doesn't use air defense S-300 missiles for ground attacks (they have more effective missiles for ground targets and they need S-300 for AD) whereas Ukrainian army used those air-target-missiles for air defense[+][+]. The frequent “killing of civilians” miraculously stopped as soon as Ukrainians depleted their stocks of S-300 anti-missiles suggesting that they were accidentally killing their own civilians while failing to intercept Russian missiles (S-300 were falling onto civilian areas on the ground – collateral damage[+]) or with debris from AD.
The speaker of the Air Force of the AFU, Yurii Ihnat, confirmed[+] that their air defense will continue to shoot down missiles on their homes because they have no other solution to defend cities. And another Ukrainian soldier admits[»] in an interview how they sometimes shoot missiles that end up killing own civilians and how this is moral dilemma.
Failures in the work of Ukraine’s air defense forces are probably taking place due to the fact that AD systems have been deployed without taking into account the features of the urban environment and the full spectrum of operation of the systems[+]. Their poorly trained AD operators should learn to calculate where they ought to strike an approaching missile so that the debris do not fall on people and that if an AD missile misses its target, that it does not hit places with people, but they do not do that. They just push the button and hope for the best. Moreover, Ukraine has been running low on munitions for its air defenses, leaving them scraping the bottom of the barrel and turning to older, Soviet-made Buk and S-300 missiles which are long past their "use by" date. But, Ukraine’s air defenses have had difficulty controlling "collateral damage" in civilian areas even when using newer NATO-standard munitions, which are not free from glitching and technical error but the biggest problem is incompatibility of different parts of an AD system. Ukraine’s air defense system is not built according to the canons of the Soviet system of organizing air defenses, or even that of Russia. Regarding the “ineffective” use of resources, there is definitely a technical factor as well as the human factor at foul play during AD accidents. Plus So, sometimes they miss and hit civilian facilities but they blame it then on the Russians rather than take responsibility for their accidental killings. And, of course, locals and allies are inclined to unquestionably believe them.
Just remember the incident[+] in Poland in November 2022, where they killed some Polish civilians, which they blamed[+] on Russians but Polish[+] and NATO officials[+], including US President Biden[+] made investigation and revealed soon afterward that the deadly missile was launched by Ukrainian AD forces[+].
Some incidents of Ukrainians striking Ukrainian civilian targets:
➡ One of many other proofs that Ukrainians are killing their own civilians due to faulty Ukrainian air defense is the New York Times article[+] about the 6 September 2023 missile strike on the market in the Ukrainian-controlled town of Kostiantynivka (Donetsk region), killing 16 civilians and injuring 33 others. Zelensky blamed[+] “evil Russian terrorists” for the attack, and many media outlets took his words as gospel and did the same without any fact-checking[+][+]. But evidence collected and analyzed by The New York Times, including missile fragments, satellite imagery, the direction from which the missile flew in, witness accounts, and social media posts prove that the catastrophic strike was the result of an errant Ukrainian 9M38 missile fired by a Buk launch system. The reporters also wrote about the coverup of Ukrainian authorities who tried to prevent journalists from accessing the missile debris and impact area in the strike’s immediate aftermath. It may be an accident but it may also be a false flag operation at the time US Secretary of State Blinken was visiting Kyiv to use it to outrage and so compel the US to provide more aid and stop pressuring Kyiv to freeze the conflict6[+].
➡ On April 8, 2022, Ukrainian troops fired a Tochka-U missile at the railway station in Kramatorsk, killing 50 people and injuring 87 others, which was first blamed on Russians but then was all debunked[+][+][+][»].
Besides, it must be noted that many of the killed Ukrainian civilians were killed by the Ukrainians, not just as accidents due to Ukrainian air-defense missiles or debris, but also as false flag operations, or to kill ethnic Russians or “Russian collaborators”[+] (e.g., in Bucha because they accepted Russian humanitarian relief) either as revenge, or to blame Russians for cruelly killing civilians, or as a warning to others who might express pro-Russian attitude. Also, they kill many Ukrainian civilians by accident[+]or by getting into fights. As The Daily Beast reported[+], Ukrainians admit that “some of their comrades have been so drunk or high that they have killed civilians, soldiers, and animals in a blind rage or while driving under the influence”. Also, even in peace time, without a war, there are homicides all the time, which was in Ukraine in the years before the war started in 2014, on average 2.200 or 6 per a day.
In May 2024, in Kramatorsk, the Ukrainian Army drove over and killed a civilian
Apart from endangering own civilians by establishing military bases in civilian areas and misusing their air defense systems, Ukraine has been committing also war crimes of shelling residential areas under Russian control. Since 2014 and especially since the beginning of the SMO on 24 February 2022, the residential areas of Donetsk, Horlovka, Makeevka, Yelenovka almost daily have been subjected to multiple barbaric acts of shelling from the AFU7positions with dozens of people killed and hundreds wounded. Using a “scorched earth” tactic Ukraine has also committed a series of barbaric bombardments of Berdyansk, Kherson, Melitopol, Novaya Kakhovka and other cities of the Azov Sea region.
In just first six months upon Russian SMO in 2022, almost 1.000 ethnic Russian civilians were killed and almost 3.000 wounded[+], and this is only what could had be counted by then with figures being much higher as it turned out later8, so no wonder, they all voted in September 2022 referendums to separate from the Kyiv regime9 that was slaughtering them and to rejoin Russia. Ukrainians claim that they want to “liberate” them from “evil” Russians but it is them who are evil as they indiscriminately bombard those whom they deviously claim to want to liberate, unless they only want to liberate territories and then do the genocide and ethnical cleansing in the area.
The problem with Ukrainians is that they only want the land back but not the native people (ethnic Russians) there and the natives do not want the corrupt, aggressive, anti-Russian regime to rule them. So, the morally right thing to do would be to allow the indigenous people the right to self-determination, as this right is enshrined in the UN Charter anyway and already granted to many such as Kosovo, South Sudan, former Yugoslav and Soviet republics, including Ukraine...
As we already mentioned, from 2022 to July 2023, Russian authorities and OHCR evidenced more than 9.000 ethnic Russian civilians being killed (by Ukrainians) in new Russian territories (former Ukraine) plus hundreds[+] more in other Russian territories (Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, etc.).
Some incidents of Ukrainians striking Russian civilian targets:
➡ Here is a list[+] of Ukraine Terrorist Attacks (those that target civilians) in one week alone (28. Sept. - 4. Oct. 2024) as a random sample
➡ 26 August 2024, Ukraine was deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure and energy facilities within Russia's Saratov region where Ukraine drone attack hit residential houses[»].
➡ 7 June 2024, Ukrainian bomb and missile attacks on a shop packed with customers and staff in the village of Sadove[+][+][+] in Kherson area killed 22 civilians and wounded 15 with a guided bomb and US-supplied HIMARS missile.
And, the same day, another Ukrainian missile strike on an apartment block in the city of Luhanskkilled 4 people[+] and wounded 46 with ATACMs missiles from HIMAR launchers. Ukraine happily shells their own citizens if they’re on Russian controlled territory. A proof that it is not about liberating them but killing them to liberate the territory that has more value to them than the people.
➡ 12 May 2024 in Belgorod, Ukrainians stroke a residential building that collapsed, killing 17 civilians[+][»]. Many other cases of Ukraine bombing civilian targets such as apartment buildings in Belgorod are reported[+][+] every month or week.
➡ 23 April 2024, Reuters reported[+] that 120 civilians were killed by Ukraine strikes since 2022 in Russia's Belgorod region
➡ 12 March - 3 April 2024 (around Russia's presidential election), Ukrainian invasion10 or terrorist attacks or incursions[+] of Russia's Belgorod regionkilling 27 civilians, including children, while 187 more have been injured[+][+]. Instead of defending their country, at the time when they were losing many villages in Donetsk region, Ukrainians decided it was better to attack and kill civilians in Russia during democratic elections, whereby NATO countries fully supported it (the same month US Congress approved a new $61 billion aid package) – this alone tells all you need to know about Ukrainian war as clearly, this war is not about defending democracy or territorial integrity but about reaching the NATO goal of weakening Russia. No wonder, Russians decided to create a buffer zone by conducting a Kharkiv offensive in May 2024.
This was one of many[+][+] Ukrainian attacks on civilian targets on Belgorod city in Russia, most of them unsuccessful (due to Russian air defense) but many drones and missiles did got through like on 15 February 2024[+][+] killing 7 people, including a one-year-old baby, and injuring 19 more, including four children, also damaging 128 apartments, 15 residential homes, a shopping center, the sports stadium, and over 30 cars.
US reporter Patrick Lancaster made this video titled “Ukraine Shells Belgorod Region Russia City 600 Times A Day”
➡ 3 February 2024, Ukrainian missile strike on a bakery[+] in the city of Lisichansk in Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) killing 28 civilians with US-supplied HIMARS missiles. In August 2022, a representative of the Defense Intelligence (Service) of Ukraine, Vadim Skibitsky admitted that in order to use the HIMARS systems, Kyiv must first obtain target clearance from Washington, which means that the US is accomplice[+] to this terrorist attack. There was no military personnel or military target there.
➡ 21 January 2024, Ukrainian shelling of the busy Sunday market in Donetsk city (in Russian held territory) resulted in 27 civilian deaths and 20 injured. Shelling old ladies selling onions[»][+]. Here are some other cases of murdering innocent civilians in Donetsk city[+][+][+]. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned[+] Sunday’s attack on Donetsk but refused to assign blame. Russians showed once again that they take a higher moral ground than Ukrainians as they did not take their revenge on civilians, like Ukraine did and does, as Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated[+] that subsequent Russian high-precision missile strikes on military targets in Kyiv and Kharkiv were not retaliation for that Ukrainian attack, stressing that it was only part of Moscow’s ongoing operation. He also highlighted that Russian forces do not target civilians, unlike the Kyiv regime, which is what fundamentally distinguishes their military from the military of the Kyiv regime.
➡ 30 December 2023, Ukrainian rocket and missile attack on the Russian city of Belgorod[+] (about 40 kilometers from the border with Ukraine) resulted in 25 civilians (including five children) killed and over 100 wounded damaging 37 apartment buildings, 453 apartments, three private households and seven social and government facilities (such as an ice skating rink in the city's Cathedral Square, a shopping center, a sports center, and a university), where evidently no military personnel or vehicles were present. Vampire rockets were Czech-made and Vilkha missiles were fitted with prohibited cluster-munition warheads.
Instead of condemning the attack on a clearly civilian area, disgraceful Western media such as ABC News legitimized this war crime with outrageous statements[+]11 such as:
“Ukraine…seeking to stir up discontent (in Russia)” – one has to have a very low IQ to expect that such terrorist attacks would stir up discontent that would favor the terrorists. This terrorist attack was obviously counterproductive as it did stir up discontent but against Ukrainians even more, strengthening Russian hard-liners’ narrative that Russia should seize the whole of Eastern Ukraine to secure Belgorod and other border areas from such attacks in the future. Not smart, Budanov.
“Kyiv’s forces seek to embarrass Russian President Vladimir Putin and puncture his argument that life in Russia is going on as normal despite the 22-month war” – Only lunatics can assume that Putin would be embarrassed about a Ukrainian terrorist attack! To kill civilians only to puncture a fictional12 Putin’s argument, to stir up discontent, and to show Ukraine can strike back is despicable and monstruous and so are evidently13 those in the media who publish such revolting justifications.
“Hitting Belgorod and disrupting city life is a dramatic way for Ukraine to show it can strike back against Russia” – are they saying that they stroke just to show off? Anyone, even the infantile can strike against unarmed, innocent civilians, so it is a grotesque point, as if saying a kid killed his parents to show he can! Insane! Even monkeys can strike against Russia, so how does that make Ukrainians any better?
“The tactic appeared to be having some success, with signs the attacks are unsettling the public, political leaders and military observers.” – wishful thinking which they debunked even themselves in the end by writing that many “Russian military bloggers have argued then that… Russia needs to seize more territory to secure Belgorod and other border areas.” How is that tactic then having success?!
EU spokesman on foreign affairs Peter Stano said[+]Ukraine has the right to defend itself, despite the fact that many civilians and no military personnel were killed, and no military facilities were hit. He never justified how is Ukraine defending itself by murdering innocent civilians in Russia!
when asked about France's position, a spokesman of the Foreign Ministry in Paris said[+] that Ukraine was “acting in self-defensein accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter”. That means that France's position is also that any Russian attacks on Ukraine can be classified as the same, unless the French authorities are hypocrites.
Not only did that attack fail to achieve anything at all but it severely backfired in two terrible ways: 1) it reinforced Russians to fight even harder against “evil Ukrainian terrorists” including to seize the Eastern Ukraine to secure Belgorod and other border areas from such attacks in the future, and 2) to punish Ukraine, Russia reciprocated with a multiple times bigger attack on military targets which killed those who were responsible for terrorist raids inside Russia, such as countless Ukrainian Intelligence Service and Security Service representatives, neo-Nazi Right Sector paramilitaries, Kraken unit militants, up to 600 foreign mercenaries including up to 200 French mercenaries, units of Ukraine's 59th Motorized Infantry and 79th Airborne Assault Brigades, not to mention destroyed much of military equipment, artillery, and fuel depots[+]. Russians showed once again that they take a higher moral ground than Ukrainians as they did not take their revenge on civilians, like Ukraine did and does, as Russian MoD announced[+] it would not retaliate on civilians but they instead hit military facilities killing multitudes of guilty military personnel. A few civilians also died due to incompetent work of Ukrainian air defense, which is, beside Russian stated intent[+], evident by the fact how their locations were hit – AD missiles and debris leave very different damage than missiles. You’d think Kyiv authorities were intelligent enough to learn by then that it never pays off to kill Russian civilians as they always, each time end up with much more losses. The trade-off has never ever been advantageous to Ukraine but it seems all they care is a PR victory here and there with hitting Russia, albeit only civilian areas, as it excites all the Russophobes among their public and NATO states, who never consider the heavy price they have to pay for those couple of hours of excitement over some Russian civilian deaths.
Notice how whenever NATO media outlets report[+] on such cases of Ukrainians murdering innocent civilians, they whitewash and legitimize their war crimes by reporting it was nothing but a normal retaliation for Russians allegedly killing some people before, as if that is a permissible and legitimate thing to do! They omit to mention that those “people” that Russia killed were mostly soldiers, not civilians, and across the whole country. They also do not distinguish the difference from Russians striking a military facility whereby some civilians got killed by Ukrainian air defence missile debris and Ukrainians striking a clearly civilian area with no military there. They also omit to mention that because Ukraine has not declared a war against Russia, all Ukrainian attacks on Russian soil[+][+] are terrorist attacks, which makes Ukraine a terrorist state, according to the international law. They also omit to mention the heavy price Ukrainians have to pay for their terrorist attacks as God (sowing and reaping) punishes them every time by inflicting multiple times greater losses.
➡ 16 September 2022 Ukraine’s missiles strike on the administration building in Kherson (which was under Russian control) killed three people and 13 were wounded with the US-supplied HIMARS launchers. Most of them were civilian passers-by. We feature this attack on a civilian target because Zelensky aide Mikhail Podoliak said[»][+] that civilian officials are 'legitimate targets', which means that if Russians kill him and the likes of him, it would be legitimate, so no complaining when it happens.
➡ On 14 March 2022, Ukrainian missile strike on the center of Donetsk[+] with a Tochka-U missile, killing 23 and injuring 36 civilians. This was just one of many attacks on civilian targets in that city, which has been shelled almost daily since 2014. For instance, 13 people were killed in the September 2022 Donetsk attack[+] with the shelling of civilian infrastructure facilities on the Baku Commissars Square, and in June 2022, an Ukrainian artillery attack hit the Maisky market[+] in Donetsk killing five civilians, including a child and injuring at least 22.
Ukrainians indiscriminately shell the Russian-held Donetsk City almost every day killing thousands of civilians. Ukrainians use[+][+][+] the "butterfly mines" in many of their attacks, which is a war crime as it is banned under the 1997 Ottawa Treaty (signed by Ukraine but not by Russia).
US reporter Patrick Lancaster made this video titled “Ukraine Fires On Kindergarten, Music School & Homes In Donetsk Killing and wounding Civilians”
➡ There are too many other attacks on civilians to mention them all here. Furthermore, with their superior air defense systems, Russians manage to thwart countless drone and missile attacks on civilian infrastructure in both Russia and newly annexed Russian territories, nevertheless, although unsuccessful, barbaric terrorist attacks occurred.
On top of killing civilians is the destruction of civilian objects including private homes as Ukraine shells civilian targets almost every day. For instance, just in Donetsk, Ukrainian shelling damaged about 2.000 apartment buildings, 5.000 private houses[+] since the beginning of 2022 until the end of August 2023 – how come Western mainstream media did not report that? They report how many Russian soldiers but not how many civilians have Ukrainians killed and how many civilian homes and infrastructure has been destroyed by Ukrainians – why is that? Could it be that Western MSM is just a propaganda machine to serve Ukrainian and NATO interests?
The Ukrainian army has been shelling civilians in the areas surrounding the Donetsk region, while accusing the Russian army of atrocities
And why does no one object to Ukrainian civilians being made into combatants[+] by Kyiv regime? Is it a tactical Western move to get “bad press” about Russians “killing civilians?” Why is there no international outrage about civilians being forced and kidnapped to go to fight (and without any valid combat training)?!
There is enough evidence of Ukrainian violent drafting measures and mobilizing teenagers[»], old men, and fathers of five children with no training[»]! Judging from thousands of videos[»][»][»][»][»][»][»][»][»][»][»][»][»][»][»][»][»][»][ꚛ][»][»] surfacing on the net baring strong resistance of Ukrainian civilians who are being forced to join the army to be used as meat for the meatgrinder, it is safe to say that perhaps the fiercest battles in Ukraine are those between military commissars[»] and conscripts. It is the Kyiv regime that is getting Ukrainian civilians killed by throwing them to the frontlines as cannon fodder. Putin doesn't have to shamefully force or kidnap civilians from the streets like Zelensky's regime does to mobilize for AFU as most Russian militants joined voluntarily[+] to fight for Putin or Russia but you do not hear that from the Western MSM.
Donbas[+] is a coal mining region that was part of eastern Ukraine from 1922-2022 (now part of Russia) consisting of two Republics - Donetsk and Luhansk - where most residents have been Russians for centuries. In 2022, after Bolsheviks defeated the Ukrainian nationalists, Lenin gave that part of former Russian Empire with mostly ethnic Russian residents to the Soviet Republic of Ukraine under condition that it remains part of the Soviet Union and under Moscow governance (Kyiv administration) but in 1991, Ukraine violated that agreement by breaking off from the Soviet Union and from Moscow, and since 2014, Ukrainians had been demolishing all Lenin's monuments, therefore they have no rights to claim the territories he conditionally granted them. Since Ukrainians hate Lenin and Stalin so much that they demonize them, then in the Russian view[+], it is only fair to give back all the land[ꚛ] that Lenin and Stalin allocated to Soviet Ukraine, without even asking the locals’ permission (the majority were ethnic Russians in Donbas).
Donbas is colored in blue but only a far east part with Luhansk
"Russian collaborators" by definition are Ukrainians collaborating with Russians, and not Russians collaborating with Russians. So, Ukrainians are killing their own citizens just because they are pro-Russian, as opposed to pro-West or pro-NATO, which according to pre-war Kyiv polls[+][+][+] (by KIIS) and elections’ results [+][+] accounted for more than half of Ukraine. Pro-Russian parties and presidential candidates always won the majority, not counting the undemocratic regime changes of the Orange and Maidan revolutions.
the UN institutions are pro-NATO/Ukraine — read here[+] how Top UN official, the director of the UN’s human rights office (OHCHR) in New York, Craig Mokhiber, confirmed it in his resignation letter in November 2023
the UN institutions are pro-NATO/Ukraine — click here[+] to read how The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), like all UN institutions have been hijacked by NATO, as all or most officials are pro-NATO and have used hostile language against Russia & ethnic Russians
as usual, the US totally disregards what Russia wants as it suggests freezing the conflict without considering the option that Russia would not agree to that. To negotiate peace on the US terms is surely not in Russia's interests
from February 2022 until May 2023, Russian sources evidenced[+] more than 8.000 civilians killed on their side (by Ukrainians) – over 4.500 civilians in the Donetsk province, plus over 3.000 civilians in the Severodonetsk region of the Luhansk province. Plus casualties in other regions — Zaporozhzhia, Kherson, and Crimea regions, where until July 2023, OHCHR reported[+] 1.328 killed and 280 injured (in territory occupied by Russia outside Donetsk and Luhansk), which means they are considerably higher but if we only take just that (4.630 + 3.000 + 1.328+), it would mean more than 9.000 killed ethnic Russian civilians from February 2022 - July 2023. Plus 14.000 from April 2014 - February 2022.
we refer to Kyiv as a regime[+] due to its oppressive and repressive policies, corruption, and foul treatment of its ethnic minorities, such as the ethnic Russians, violating their human rights, tyrannizing, and killing them since 2014.
Ukrainian invasion[+] — for some reason, when Russia attacked Ukraine, the Western officials and media calls it "invasion" but when Ukraine attacks Russia, they call it "raids" or "incursions"
here is the link[+] to the original article (which is evident from the words in the link) which now only shows "Oops! Page unavailable." The fact that they removed the content of that article indicates that they were wrong to post it in the first place
fictional[+] Putin’s argument — as usual they twist his words and undeniable fact is that 99% of Russians indeed do not feel that Russia is at a war as they go on with their lives as usual.
here is the link[+] to the original article (which is evident from the words in the link) which now only shows "Oops! Page unavailable." The fact that they removed the content of that article indicates that they were wrong to post it in the first place
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