Seriously, we condemned Russia for invading Ukraine and have probably acknowledged that they most likely killed civilians while trying to bombard enemy positions, while also condemning Ukraine for lying for propaganda purposes, persecuting dissidents and political rivals, and using barrier troops to force men to fight instead of letting them flee the corrupt shithole.
Meanwhile, the regressive left and globalist conspirators aggressively and blindly defended Ukraine while intensifying the Russia bashing to the point where regressive leftist russophobia was documented to have escalated.
In all honesty, fuck everyone involved in this retarded conflict that could have been avoided with better diplomacy.
You're citing Amnesty. Amnesty was condemning Ukraine for using civilians as human shields a while back, which of course elicited howls of outrage from the "GAE allies can do no wrong" crowd.
I'm citing Amnesty in spose to the poster citing Amnesty, to show what happens when the civilian areas are not being defended and are left to (no) mercy of the invaders.
Hadn't read it. That said, it is interesting that criticism of GAE allies is Very Bad and of opponents if Very Good.
Speak like a normal fucking human being.
I did.
The three links from above, so you could read before commenting for once:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/08/ukraine-ukrainian-fighting-tactics-endanger-civilians/ (opening, not mine)
Fragment:
And two mine, providing the context - what happens to the undefended areas:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur50/5713/2022/en/
(A deliberate massacre of children with an airstrike.)
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/04/ukraine-russian-forces-extrajudicially-executing-civilians-in-apparent-war-crimes-new-testimony/
There's lots more of course.
There are three relevant countries which have not signed the ban on cluster munitions. Russia, Ukraine, and the United States.
They can't lawfully attack "indiscriminately", but they can lawfully attack the military objective even if that means collateral damage to civilians.
I agree.
But it's worse than a crime, it's a blunder. If you were going to kill people indiscriminately, it would be smart to do it in a place where the people aren't in large part Russians / Russian speakers, like Lwow. Reducing Mariupol seems counterproductive, whether or not it was justified under ius in bello.
But what do I know? Putin's probably smarter than I am, and knows what he's doing.
If only there had been a way to avoid this way, like not provoking Russia for 30 years straight.