Ukraine accuses Russia of targeting rescue workers by hitting residential buildings with two consecutive missiles — the first one to draw crews to the scene and the second one to wound or kill them

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1. they will do this every time now that they know it was effective. Fucking pieces of shit.

2. Upvoted in agreement

3. Iskander missiles, which have an advanced guidance system that increases their accuracy, struck the city of Pokrovsk within 40 minutes of each other, according to Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko.^1

   >According to Ukrainian authorities, one of those killed was an emergency official, and most of those wounded were police officers, emergency workers and soldiers who rushed to assist residents.

   >[…]

   >“All of (the police) were there because they were needed, putting their efforts into rescuing people after the first strike,” Ivan Vyhivskyi, chief of Ukraine’s National Police, said Tuesday.

   >“They knew that under the rubble were the injured — they needed to react, to dig, to retrieve, to save. And the enemy deliberately struck the second time.”

   In his nightly address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the strikes on Pokrovsk killed nine people and wounded more than 80 others.

   Two civilians were killed when Kremlin forces dropped four guided bombs on a village in Kharkiv, according to Ukraine’s presidential office. Rescuers then came under fire, with two wounded.

   ^1 Hanna Arhirova (8 Aug. 2023) “Ukraine accuses Russia of targeting rescue workers with consecutive missile strikes”, https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-missile-strike-6fa27eed10747b7daa85d7518e99d5ba

4. They are a plague that needs to go.

5. Russia: The nation that begets war criminals as a cultural aspiration.

6. Terrorist state doing terrorist stuff.
   Not surprised.

7. Literal terrorist tactic.

   Taliban and isis did this all the time.

8. Same tactics in Syria… Brutality 🙁

9. The Orcs really are complete pieces of shit.