Ukrainian forces that have occupied part of Kursk Region have committed atrocities against civilians while using them as human shields, the commander of the Akhmat Special Forces from Russia's Chechen Republic has claimed.
In a post on Telegram on Monday, Apty Alaudinov recounted an episode in the border town of Sudzha, where he said Ukrainian troops had entered a residential house with children inside.
“In this building, they settled down on the ground floor… and chased children and teachers upstairs to use them as a shield,” he said, adding that this practice is widespread.
He claimed that first-person footage filmed by the Ukrainians had ended up in Russian hands, and showed the brutality of Kiev’s forces.
“I received a huge number of photos in which I saw civilians who were simply shot at point-blank [range], in the head and from the back. All these civilians, unfortunately, died,” he said, expressing his condolences and vowing revenge.
What. Are. You. Talking about? Nah... Of course we deserve to be wiped out. What are you, some sort of a tankie or what?
There's very little equivalence between the Palestinians and non-Nazi Ukrainians, I want to make it very, very clear. But... There are two kinda similar things to point out: 1) both are being sacrificed on the altar of US capitalism and Western imperialism (in very different ways, but still) and 2) the US can end the suffering in both cases with a snap of a finger (it's more complicated than that, I know - in theory at least).
Speaking of number 2 - we've seen massive anti-genocide protests in the West, something I'm very happy about. Why? I'd say because it's not easy to paint the genocide in Gaza in any different sort of way. Yet we don't see a lot of anti-war protests when it comes to ending military support for the Ukroreich, except for occasional meetings here and there, or dedicated peace activists storming Bernie "Zionist apologist" Sanders' office. But hey, let's primarily blame the proles of a puppet state and leave out this bit.