Londonrake wrote:
The Russian army's been bombarding Mariupol (population 400,000) relentlessly, day and night, for over a month.
First of all have you watched the video? Are you saying the people interviewed are lying?
Fyi this is not the first video I personally posted. I posted at least 10 with the exact same content. Have you watched any?
The indisputable truth is that the Ukrainians retreat inside the cities. They place artillery and tanks, in school yards, next to hospitals, museums, and building blocks. FORCE the civilians to stay keeping them as human shield and often don't hesitate to kill everybody including their own who may try to get out through the humanitarian corridors.
(This is what's actually happening right now in Azovastal). They fire from there, snipers fire from the apartments, and others station at the top of apartment blocks. The process to eliminate such an enemy is by bombarding their armaments first using artillery from a distance, and when the area clears up let the tanks in. And then comes the difficult task of doing mopping up operations to individuals who still hide in apartments , and other who are firing from the roofs. All this procedure causes huge destruction of buildings and infrastructure.
So yes the Russian army has been bombarding Mariupol for over a month taking precautions to have the minimal affect on civilian lives. The vast majority of civilians killed were killed by Ukrainians for disobeying their orders to stay providing them human shield. Hundreds of testimonies around.
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The place is a flattened cinder. Putin even put a man in charge, Alexander Dvornikov - one of his favourite generals apparently - who specialises in "siege tactics" and was responsible for Aleppo and Grozny.
What’s your problem with that? That’s the way it’s done when you have cowards hiding inside the cities using their own civilians as human shield.
wrote: They clearly couldn't give a flying fuck about civilians and the idea of such being used by their own side as "human shields" is transparently total bollocks.
Total bollocks is your brainwashed head. Open your eyes and watch videos I posted.
wrote: Just like the secret bio-war labs stuff.
For which of course you are so brainwashed that you have no doubt it’s a lie.
I never advocated it’s true, but how on earth can you be so sure it’s "bollocks" is beyond me.
I ‘d suggest you wait for the evidence in due course.
I wouldn’t expect anything better from a person like you, who to this day has absolutely no doubt that the Skripals were poisoned by the Russian state and no one else.
wrote: Estimated dead civilians - due to the Russian invasion - in the city 10,000.
Estimated by who? Those who brainwash you or the Russians who themselves evacuated more than 170,000? When will you finally understand that Russians have nothing to gain by shooting civilians? And why did they die because of the Russians, and not because the Ukrainians were shooting at them? Presumably they were in the basements right? It’s very difficult for anyone to die from shelling a building, while he is in a basement.
Generally I pity you for your ignorance. You could have learned if you wanted, but it looks you are afraid to disturb your deep rooted beliefs.
Estimated dead civilians - 
