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“Increasingly, Ukrainians are confronting an uncomfortable truth: The military’s understandable impulse to defend against Russian attacks could be putting civilians in the crosshairs. Virtually every neighborhood in most cities has become militarized, some more than others, making them potential targets for Russian forces trying to take out Ukrainian defenses.”

“But to the extent that Ukraine brings the battlefield to the civilian neighborhoods, it increases the danger to civilians.” -William Schabas an international law professor at Middlesex University of London

“If they don’t do that, that is a violation of the laws of war,” he added. “Because what they are doing is they are putting civilians at risk. Because all that military equipment are legitimate targets.”

Moreover, [Alexei Arestovich, adviser to the head of the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky] argued that international humanitarian laws or the laws of war don’t apply in this conflict because “the main task of Putin’s military campaign is the destruction of the Ukrainian nation.” He said Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly denied Ukraine’s existence as an independent nation.

“Ukraine cannot use civilian neighborhoods as ‘human shields,’” said Schabas,

  • loathesome dongeaterA
    23·
    2 years ago

    But Ukraine’s strategy of placing heavy military equipment and other fortifications in civilian zones could weaken Western and Ukrainian efforts to hold Russia legally culpable for possible war crimes, said human rights activists and international humanitarian law experts.

    This is such a weird thing to write unironically.

    Btw what is the info on humanitarian corridors? I have read contradicting news about it. Of Ukraine not allowing civillians to evacuate and of Russia attacking these corridors during ceasefires. Is there any concrete information about them?

    • Shrike502
      16·
      2 years ago

      Is there any concrete information about them?

      In the current climate of mutual finger pointing? Don’t expect it. Russian MoD says they have established the corridors to evacuate civilians, but the Ukrainian forces (specifically the Nazi batallions) are preventing them from being used and fire on people trying to escape. Also they (Russian MoD) are saying that the Ukrainian government is withholding information on the corridors.

      I have no idea what Ukrainian government is saying about the corridors, as I don’t read their stuff for fear of brain damage.

    • xxcvzvcxx
      4·
      2 years ago

      Russia has absolutely no reason to attack civilian evacuation corridors because evacuation of civilians makes their job easier. It is literally in their interest if all the civilians are evacuated so they can do military operation without fear of civilian casualties.

      The people who say Russia is attacking civilian corridors are absolutely insane. Their reasoning usually boils down to “Russians are evil horde and they attack civilians because they’re evil hurrr” but of course, if they wanted to deliberately attack civilians they could just… not establish an evacuation corridor in the first place.

      So to believe that Russians are attacking humanitarian evacuation corridors, you have to believe that Russians are not only evil enough to deliberately target civilians, but that they’re so evil that they only want to target civilians, so they have established a humanitarian corridor as some sort of trap so they can separate the civilians from armed forces so they can kill all the civilians.

      It is absolutely unhinged.