So...I show you several days of the Ukrainian forces shelling civilian targets prior to the 24th of February (the date of the Russian invasion)...and you just ignore it because it happened in 2022?
Are you saying that Russia opened fire on the Ukrainians before February 24th? Show me the evidence of that if so.
No, you didn't. I clicked the first link, which was about incidents between soldiers (and in one case Russian forces firing on an UAV of the ceasefire observers and also jamming them) and nothing about any "Ukrainian forces shelling civilian targets" whatsoever. Should I click the second one? Or was it in the third? Each one(s), exactly?
Russia first opened fire in March of 2014, which is also when they killed the first Ukrainian soldier (naval officer taken prisoner and then murdered in Crimea with gunshot wounds) and the first civilians too (multiple Tatar activists disappeared and later found dead or not found at all). Then beginning in April of 2014 they killed thousands of Ukrainians in the east of the country before February 2022, but almost all of them also before March 2015.
They also killed three hundred of mostly Dutch foreign civilians. In just one day.
Less than 1,000 people (almost all of them soldiers) on both sides died 2016-2022. That's 6 full years, with usually just no one at all dying on any given day, and every year it was less than in the year prior.
Since February 24 the same hundreds of people is a daily death toll, every single day, and with a whole lot more civilians between them. Many of whom are being deliberately murdered.
Actually just the first link is all I need. Just show me which one of these paragraphs did you so creatively and also very specifically interpret as "several days of Ukrainian forces shelling civilian targets":
In Donetsk region, between the evenings of 11 and 13 February, the Mission recorded 261 ceasefire violations, including 50 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 114 ceasefire violations in the region.
In Luhansk region, between the evenings of 11 and 13 February, the SMM recorded 114 ceasefire violations, including 24 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 258 ceasefire violations in the region.
Small-arms fire was assessed as directed at an SMM mini-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in non-government-controlled Kalmiuske, Donetsk region.*
The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske.
The SMM monitored the operation and repair of critical civilian infrastructure.
The Mission continued following up on the situation of civilians, including at five entry-exit checkpoints and four corresponding checkpoints of the armed formations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
The SMM monitored the security situation in east and south-east Kherson region.
The Mission’s freedom of movement continued to be restricted, including at a checkpoint of the armed formations near Kreminets in Luhansk region. Its UAVs again encountered instances of GPS signal interference, assessed as caused by probable jamming and jamming.*
It's the many videos of various military parades held by Russian forces in Donetsk city over all these years.
It's military parades, but also attended by crowds of specifically pro-Russia civilians - and even by all the "separatist" leaders (military and otherwise). You seem to think they would surely go and shell then, right?
Or, for example, the funerals of slain Russian commanders, practically also military parades and with lots of civs and they do want to hit the civs, you apparently think so.
Well, you see, Ukrainian forces have held the suburbs like Piski and Avdiivka a few kilometers away (Piski especially just across Donetsk Airport), all that time. In fact, they still do!
Now ask yourself the following questions:
Can you even imagine a more juicy target than that if someone wanted to hit just any remotely civilian target on purpose?
Why are they never being shelled?
Why are they not at all even afraid of being shelled (or otherwise attacked, like hit with a ballistic missile)?
Why none of the buildings ever bear any damage from shelling on any other date?
If you need a visual reference, this is how a city in Ukraine looks like after just few weeks (not "years") of shelling: https://youtu.be/MDVLmOVDaOY
Then go and call whoever have lied to you so much a niggerfaggot, which they are.
So...I show you several days of the Ukrainian forces shelling civilian targets prior to the 24th of February (the date of the Russian invasion)...and you just ignore it because it happened in 2022?
Are you saying that Russia opened fire on the Ukrainians before February 24th? Show me the evidence of that if so.
No, you didn't. I clicked the first link, which was about incidents between soldiers (and in one case Russian forces firing on an UAV of the ceasefire observers and also jamming them) and nothing about any "Ukrainian forces shelling civilian targets" whatsoever. Should I click the second one? Or was it in the third? Each one(s), exactly?
Russia first opened fire in March of 2014, which is also when they killed the first Ukrainian soldier (naval officer taken prisoner and then murdered in Crimea with gunshot wounds) and the first civilians too (multiple Tatar activists disappeared and later found dead or not found at all). Then beginning in April of 2014 they killed thousands of Ukrainians in the east of the country before February 2022, but almost all of them also before March 2015.
They also killed three hundred of mostly Dutch foreign civilians. In just one day.
Less than 1,000 people (almost all of them soldiers) on both sides died 2016-2022. That's 6 full years, with usually just no one at all dying on any given day, and every year it was less than in the year prior.
Since February 24 the same hundreds of people is a daily death toll, every single day, and with a whole lot more civilians between them. Many of whom are being deliberately murdered.
Actually just the first link is all I need. Just show me which one of these paragraphs did you so creatively and also very specifically interpret as "several days of Ukrainian forces shelling civilian targets":
And hey, you know what? I thought of something to show you in a very easy way.
Look at just any video here: https://youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=Donetsk+military+parade
It's the many videos of various military parades held by Russian forces in Donetsk city over all these years.
It's military parades, but also attended by crowds of specifically pro-Russia civilians - and even by all the "separatist" leaders (military and otherwise). You seem to think they would surely go and shell then, right?
Or, for example, the funerals of slain Russian commanders, practically also military parades and with lots of civs and they do want to hit the civs, you apparently think so.
Well, you see, Ukrainian forces have held the suburbs like Piski and Avdiivka a few kilometers away (Piski especially just across Donetsk Airport), all that time. In fact, they still do!
Now ask yourself the following questions:
Can you even imagine a more juicy target than that if someone wanted to hit just any remotely civilian target on purpose?
Why are they never being shelled?
Why are they not at all even afraid of being shelled (or otherwise attacked, like hit with a ballistic missile)?
Why none of the buildings ever bear any damage from shelling on any other date?
If you need a visual reference, this is how a city in Ukraine looks like after just few weeks (not "years") of shelling: https://youtu.be/MDVLmOVDaOY
Then go and call whoever have lied to you so much a niggerfaggot, which they are.