If you can’t see it due to a paywall use this website. Here are some quotes if you don’t have time

“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,

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    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.