This bombing is one of the most damning atrocities that Russia has perpetrated in Ukraine in terms of scale, brutality, and lack of deniability. This building had absolutely no military role whatsoever and the Russians knew this. The building housed no soldiers, but only hundreds of starving civilians, including women who had fled from the maternity hospital also bombed by Russia. As atrocious as Russia’s intelligence was, they could not have missed the massive “children” sign on both sides of the theater.
And yet, in spite of its undeniably civilian character, the theater was not hit by stray fire. No, the Russians knew that the theater was a civilian bomb shelter and that’s precisely why they targeted with a powerful precision strike. While this tactic may seem insane to normal people, it has actually been pretty standard fare for Russia in protracted foreign wars. [In Syria, targeting systematically bombing hospitals and other places of shelter became one of the main battle mission of Russian pilots.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%E2%80%93Syrian_hospital_bombing_campaign) The idea was to break the will of the civilian population in order to induce collapse of military resistance.
However, in spite of the fact that this attack is far from unprecedented for the Russian army, there is one fact that makes this incident utterly absurd. Most of these victims were Russian speakers whom Russia actually wants to incorporate as fellow citizens after annexing the Donbas. What a way to win hearts and minds…
Meh, nobody cares (less than 100 upvotes here anyways) Lets discuss the important issue however, have you heard what word Ukraine Ambassador called Scholz tho??? I was shaking as I heard it, will the world ever be the same?
I hope the evil perpetrators of this heinous attack are punished. Civilized people must not fail to find these criminals and remove them from society.
3 comments
This bombing is one of the most damning atrocities that Russia has perpetrated in Ukraine in terms of scale, brutality, and lack of deniability. This building had absolutely no military role whatsoever and the Russians knew this. The building housed no soldiers, but only hundreds of starving civilians, including women who had fled from the maternity hospital also bombed by Russia. As atrocious as Russia’s intelligence was, they could not have missed the massive “children” sign on both sides of the theater.
And yet, in spite of its undeniably civilian character, the theater was not hit by stray fire. No, the Russians knew that the theater was a civilian bomb shelter and that’s precisely why they targeted with a powerful precision strike. While this tactic may seem insane to normal people, it has actually been pretty standard fare for Russia in protracted foreign wars. [In Syria, targeting systematically bombing hospitals and other places of shelter became one of the main battle mission of Russian pilots.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%E2%80%93Syrian_hospital_bombing_campaign) The idea was to break the will of the civilian population in order to induce collapse of military resistance.
However, in spite of the fact that this attack is far from unprecedented for the Russian army, there is one fact that makes this incident utterly absurd. Most of these victims were Russian speakers whom Russia actually wants to incorporate as fellow citizens after annexing the Donbas. What a way to win hearts and minds…
Meh, nobody cares (less than 100 upvotes here anyways) Lets discuss the important issue however, have you heard what word Ukraine Ambassador called Scholz tho??? I was shaking as I heard it, will the world ever be the same?
I hope the evil perpetrators of this heinous attack are punished. Civilized people must not fail to find these criminals and remove them from society.