> residential buildings are routinely bombed on Ukraine
What do you gain from bombing residential buildings?
What do you gain from bombing residential buildings?
Also, I think it happens out of frustration on the russian side. When the "three day special operation" failed, there was a wave of random bombardment of urban areas.
On a side note, I do heavily recommend watching 20 days in Mariupol.
But one of the more resilient findings of 20th century warfare is that terror-bombing does not work to pacify a people's will from the bottom-up, only their pulse. It strengthens resolve in some people, in AT LEAST equal measure to weakening it in others.
Ukrainian military did not go into Kazantip[0] and surrounding villages in Crimea to kill and rape rave-goers and families.
Gaza, Sudan, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Syria, Myanmar, China, Ethiopia, Ukraine, you name it. We have several active genocides and government-led terror campaigns built upon projection and manufactured consent.
I literally made no claims about Ukrainian soldiers doing anything. Did you respond to the right comment? Your link just goes to a Wikipedia page on a music festival, with zero information relating to your comment.
Disasters often increase GDP, because money spent repairing damaged stuff moves thru the economy. Of course that doesn't mean this spending is productive or really is making the economy grow. Just one of the reasons GDP, as any other metric, has to be taken with a grain of salt.
Chechnya and the Syrian civil war were no different, but now there's video evidence and admissions of guilt all over the internet (and more than that, they laugh about firefighters and medics being blown up by drones and bombs), and yet still people deny it. It's nuts.
If you're saying this stuff, you're either not actually paying attention to the evidence or you're deliberately closing your eyes to it. It's that absurd.
https://x.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1858613355734593549
https://x.com/giK1893/status/1853605570844237863
https://tochnyi.info/2024/11/steel-leaves-the-autumn-brings-...
https://x.com/kelley7622/status/1851283166645858647
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GUrNPPTSWM
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/russian-general-t...
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/on-the-news/russia-is-using...
https://x.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1848832251561132221
Here you can see the area was ordered evacuated OVER A YEAR AGO: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/ukraine-orders-civilian-evac...
If you see a drone striking a home, it's because UAF setup a position there, not because they're targeting civilians.
Kherson is not empty of civilians. Your link only claims that "southern" Kherson was evacuated. If you look at a map it's pretty clear why - it's at low elevation and hard to reach due to various waterways. It was also hit hard by the flooding after the Khakovka dam was destroyed.
It is extremely trivial to find out that Kherson still has a significant civilian presence, although many have indeed left.
And FFS you can see in the video that several of the people targeted are clearly elderly or medics / firefighters.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1155191
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/europe/kherson-russia-advance...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMpTUOgqkuo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zye_R7M0nFU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8C2k37I6N8
So again, if you don't actually know what you're talking about, maybe pipe down about Ukraine.
From the CNN article:
> At 4 a.m. on Tuesday morning, three shells landed near the home of Hrigorii, who did not want to give his surname. He said he believes a nearby hospital was the intended target.
That's talking about artillery, that's what 'shells' are. Artillery has a very finite range. Why in God's name are their still civilians in the city, let alone WITHIN ARTILLERY RANGE? That's beyond stupid. So either these stories are complete fabrications, which is likely, or there will need to be a lot of Ukranians tried for war crimes after they finally surrender.
Only that most residential hits are not in that category. The majority do seem to be misses / redirects.
Language is tricky sometimes, I know. But in this case, it really wasn't.
When hospitals and supermarkets are being hit repeatedly by multiple "precision" munitions, and then (sometimes) the Russians post drone footage of the impacts because they just happened to have been watching that location, and when the Russians have also used video footage of strikes on Syrian hospitals to market the effectiveness of their munitions, it's not crazy to suggest that they engage in terror bombing tactics.
Actually it is, and the commenter's language was perfectly clear.
If it helps try thinking in terms of, you know, sets and stuff.
Don't know what else to tell you.
Any specific posts you can point to?
You can watch this video instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYKuNfwNbaU
And how it would happen? Putin calls an AA site and tells them "tehre is two missiles your way - one for ammo factory and other for the children's hospital - it's your choice what to defend"?
edit: the value of cheap Iranian drones is specifically that they potentially tie up expensive AA.
And this is precisely why targeting civilian infrastructure is a war crime, as is hiding/embedding military infrastructure in or below civilian infrastructure.
For Russia/Ukraine I'm less certain that anything will come around because even if Russia gets driven out of Ukraine in its entirety, there is zero chance any Russian will be held accountable by anyone on the world stage.
Failure to "hold accountable" makes the failing part accountable.
Remind me, who was tried for this?
>> NATO planes have attacked bridges, oil refineries and other targets in raids that have affected civilians. But until Monday they had refrained from striking the electrical system. The alliance has repeatedly insisted its fight is with President Slobodan Milosevic, not with the Yugoslav people.
>> "The fact that lights went out across 70 percent of the country shows that NATO has its finger on the light switch now," said NATO spokesman Jamie Shea. "We can turn the power off whenever we need to and whenever we want to."
>> "We realize the inconvenience that may be caused to the Yugoslav people, but it up to Milosevic to decide how he wants to use his remaining energy resources: on his tanks or on his people," Shea said. While NATO sought to downplay the effect of the strikes on civilians, the raids remain politically sensitive.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/world/eu...
I agree that the US / NATO has bent and crossed international rules (way) too much in the past and without consequences - the US didn't sign the ICC accords for a reason.
>> But until Monday they had refrained from striking the electrical system.
>> "The fact that lights went out across 70 percent of the country shows that NATO has its finger on the light switch now," said NATO spokesman Jamie Shea. "We can turn the power off whenever we need to and whenever we want to."
>> "We realize the inconvenience that may be caused to the Yugoslav people, but it up to Milosevic to decide how he wants to use his remaining energy resources: on his tanks or on his people," Shea said. While NATO sought to downplay the effect of the strikes on civilians, the raids remain politically sensitive.
It sounds like you think the dilemma can only appear in the spur of a moment. Once the missile is already in the air. But the dilemma also appears before that. When you decide where to put your AA batteries, and when you set policy on when and how to engage.
They use for example air to air or naval rockets that were designed to hit an aircraft or ship. But in ground mode their seekers are just not used.
Russians cannot win, thus continue to commit war crimes just because they can and no one wants to stop them.
Bombing huge cities with 400kg of cluster munitions or old missiles with 100+ meters of CEP is nothing else than a war crime.
what about Americans? - is a usual answer of brainwashed by Russia Today person.
Russians are people who eager to enlist to kill(rape and loot) neighbors for a relatively small salary(2000$ per month).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariupol_theatre_airstrike
Last time we spoke, they said something about an urgent need to "de-nazify" the area.
[1]: https://www.ft.com/content/31b630b3-2639-456c-ba50-3caea7a9b...
>> Since mid-July, Kherson and its neighbouring villages along the western side of the Dnipro river have suffered more than 9,500 attacks with small drones, killing at least 37 people and injuring hundreds more
It's terrorism and one of the many crimes of genocide Russia is committing in Ukraine:
> A mental element: the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such"; and A physical element, which includes the following five acts, enumerated exhaustively: Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group [0]
While the comparisons to Nazi Germany don't make sense, because Nazis were their own thing, Putin's Russia is also their own thing and should have a reserved space in History for their atrocities. Their contributions to people's misery are enough to sustain their place.
Like people forget the propaganda campaign about freezing Ukrainians in the winter after the destruction of their power grid? This was boasted with pride on Russian propaganda, there's pride in making Ukrainians suffer.[1][2]
[0]https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition
[1]https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-factcheck/3912830-russian-p...
[2] https://en.detector.media/post/a-terrible-winter-awaits-ukra...
Its how you do war, you bomb everything and shoot everyone.
other times individual foreign soldiers are stationed there - and doom whole building as a target
Source?
"stationed" as in "lived while not on the frontline"
Russians always cover their crimes with lies.
and soldiers won't be stationed in the cities half a country over anyway - and gliding bombs are enough to reach Kherson/Kharkov/Zaporozhie
I googled a bit, but all I found was gliding bombs falling nearby and doing some damage to the buildings, but not direct hits.
After seeing reports like this one[0], saying that those inhuman Russians hit Kharkov residential area destroying a shopping mall and then seeing true picture where two Ukrainian MLRS launchers were parked nearby and were hit by Russian missiles during the night when mall was closed[1][2], I'm a bit skeptical.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/world/europe/russia-ukrai...