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Originally Posted by pip08456
More genocide?
The Russians refuse to evacuate the population in the occupied territories that are being flooded.
Over 40 thousand people are in danger of being flooded. Ukrainian authorities are evacuating over 17,000 people. Unfortunately, over 25,000 civilians are on the territory under Russian control. And the occupiers are not carrying out evacuation. This is yet another blatant disregard for human life and international law.
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The Russians are also continuing to shell areas where Ukrainian authorities are trying to conduct evacuations.
I have to admit I am having a hard time understanding this sickness in the Russian soul. It is too easy to blame all of this on a few deranged lunatics in Moscow - there is complicity all the way down the chain of command.
I am having an equally hard time understanding the bothsidesing coming out of the BBC all day today. It is perfectly capable of throwing weasel words into its reports when it wants to (usually when reporting on a government initiative, and the correspondent will finish their piece to camera with a sentence such as “Even so, many will wonder whether [initiative X] really will solve this growing crisis”). Yet today, while - eventually - starting to phrase its reports so as to give more prominence to Ukrainian claims, they are still presented as claims, and the Russian narrative is offered uncritically and without any context at all (such as their demonstrable track record of lying and disinformation).
There is chatter this evening that the US gov has intel that pretty much proves Russia did it and is working on getting as much of it as it can declassified so it can be shared. That would be welcome, but shouldn’t be necessary, when Zelensky is on record late last year claiming that Russia had already mined the dam, and a bunch of idiot Russian solders are already on record as claiming too have been the ones who did it.