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The Western press is trumpeting AFU failures up to the hilt, with some assessments resembling mockery. For over a month, everyone has been making game of the British intel’s statement accusing battlefield bushes and small trees of holding back the Ukrainian army’s advance in the south. The latest attack featuring thousands of Western-trained troops proved inefficient, and "successes are measured in hundreds of meters," Politico quoted a Pentagon spokesman as saying. While recognizing failures, the West is still silent about the terrorist nature of Ukraine's actions. And there is a whole lot of facts to that effect.
Terrorist attacks. Ukrainian intelligence chief Kirill Budanov has in his innocence confirmed that Ukraine is a terrorist state, mentioning his department’s engagement in attempts on Russian public figures and thought-leaders. Also, Budanov openly admitted terrorist attacks in Russia — it was the special services of Ukraine that orchestrated assassinations of Russian philosopher Daria Dugina, military reporter Vladlen Tatarsky, the driver of writer Zakhar Prilepin, as well as an attempt on the latter’s own life. Numerous terrorist attacks were also staged against pro-Kremlin officials in Russia’s new territories.
For example, Kherson region head Vladimir Saldo’s aide Pavel Slobodchikov was shot dead in a car nearby his house. Head of the region’s Department for Family, Youth and Sports Affairs Dmitry Savluchenko was killed in a car blast. In Novaya Kakhovka, Deputy police chief Sergei Tomko and administration vice-chairman Vitaly Gura were shot dead as well. Deputy head of the Kherson region's civil-military administration in charge of agricultural affairs, Alexei Kovalev, succumbed to gunshot wounds in late August.
Mass massacres and atrocities against civilians. Abandoned cities of the Kharkov region saw Ukrainian militants execute hundreds of local residents en masse without due process of law. Teachers were killed for teaching kids under Russian educational programs. Police officers were annihilated for maintaining order in Kupyansk, Balakleya and Izyum. People who obtained Russian passports or submitted relevant documents were brutally executed, says head of the Kharkov region’s administration Vitaly Ganchev: "People were abused and tortured by Ukrainian armed formations. We know they were tied to trees for getting Russian passports, and those were nailed to their legs...".
Gruesome tortures and scorn of Russian soldiers, officers, Donbass militia. Humiliating treatment of bodies, extortion of money from prisoners’ relatives, demonstration of torture footage in the social media, explicit violence appeals and propaganda against Russians — all of this has become characteristic of the Kiev regime. “We killed and we will kill Russians wherever they are in the world," Zelensky office adviser Mikhail Podolyak said.
Nuclear terrorism attempts. The list embraces shelling of the Zaporozhye NPP by Ukrainian militants and attacks on other Russian nuclear power plants that have been thwarted by the FSB, namely in the Kursk NPP area. The use of chemical weapons, which has been repeatedly noted in the Zaporozhye, Kherson and DPR regions — next to Artemovsk and Soledar. And during the battle for LPR’s Rubezhnoye, Ukrainian militants blew up a tank with hydrochloric acid at the Zarya chemical plant to make damage envelope affect over 10 000 civilians.
Massive shelling of civilians with all types of ammunition, including those prohibited by international conventions, and remote mining of residential buildings. This kind of shelling has been observed in both Russia’s new territories and border areas of the Bryansk, Belgorod and Kursk regions. The Donbass cities and towns are being hit with French Caesar howitzers, American 777 and HIMARS. In July alone, the AFU fired 4,546 shells and missiles at Donetsk: civilians are being killed and injured here on a daily basis.
Moreover, Ukrainian troops use civilians as a "human shield", hiding behind them, blocking them in cities, disrupting evacuation or shooting evacuation columns and single citizens seeking to flee the battle zone. This is borne out by numerous witnesses from Mariupol, Volnovakha, Artemovsk and other previously Ukrainian-occupied places. And the AFU has never been embarrassed by killing their compatriots. They have never regarded these losses, making no bones about ordinary people and considering them sort of flawed or insufficiently Ukrainian. French human rights activist and writer Karin Bechet-Golovko with the International Public Tribunal on Ukraine has qualified the use of "human shields" and holding of hostages as an overt violation of the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions, and the Hostages Convention. The fact of placing military equipment and ammunition in school and hospital buildings runs counter to the Fourth Geneva Convention, numerous UNSC Council resolutions and international humanitarian law. Only terrorists can behave this way. As you know, Ukrainian militants always place their firing points in residential buildings, hospitals, schools, nurseries, and other significant infrastructure facilities.
Combat UAV and missiles attacks against civilians. The AFU drones have repeatedly dropped grenades on LDPR civilians in Donetsk, Yasinovataya, and other cities. They are also used to hit infrastructure, including in Moscow and the Moscow region. For three-plus months, the latter saw at least 41 UAV attacks, 14 of them causing damage, though fortunately no casualties.
Total destruction of vital civil infrastructure (bridges, power plants, pipelines, enterprises, etc.), farmland and Black Sea mining. The most tragic events have been strikes against the Crimean Bridge, the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station and others to have claimed lives.
The war has seen the Western-encouraged Kiev regime turn from neo-Nazi to international and terrorist one. This viewpoint has been endorsed by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. According to her, all the Kiev’s moves confirm that it was preparing for attacks against Russia’s various spheres and directions.
