Ukraine has launched a “large-scale” drone attack against Russian military bombers in Siberia, striking more than 40 warplanes thousands of kilometres from its own territory, a security official said.
The claims could not be independently verified. But if confirmed, the attacks would mark Ukraine’s most damaging drone strike of the war to date, amid an escalation in cross-border incursions before planned peace talks in Istanbul on Monday.
“Ukrainian security services are carrying out a large-scale special operation aimed at destroying enemy bombers far from the front, in Russia,” the official was quoted by Agence France-Presse as saying, adding a fire had broken out at the targeted Belaya airbase.
I’m not justifying anything. I’m pointing out what actual attacks on civilians look like. There is zero evidence that Russia engages in systemic attacks on civilians in the war. In fact, civilian casualties in Ukraine are far lower than pretty much any modern war. Yet, here you are regurgitating propaganda for your favorite empire.
And there is plenty of evidence from fucking Amnesty (an unofficial arm of the UK government) that Ukraine overwhelmingly uses schools and hospitals to set up military equipment and host personnel.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/08/ukraine-ukrainian-fighting-tactics-endanger-civilians/
Standard US-taught tactics. It’s no coincidence that Israel accuses others of using human shields while doing the same thing as Ukraine: using civilian infrastructure to launch military operations.
exactly