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.
When you attack civilians, it doesn’t stop the military from doing military stuff.
When you attack civilians it gives the military more justification to keep doing horrible things.
When you attack civilians it gives the politicians more justification to let the military to keep doing horrible things.
This. Thank you for pointing this out, comrade.
When you attack civilians, it makes those who are finally starting to open their fucking eyes, to doubt the Banderite propaganda to go "nah, they were right all along, Imma go ahead and give myself up to the grinder".
Say what you want about Putin or the military commanders, but it's clear they are conducting operations to make sure their losses are minimal. And sure, Western capitalist propaganda will still smear them into the ground with false-flag psyops and Bucha-style atrocity propaganda, however... There's no reason to give these fucks ammo, to do the job for them. The entire Global South is watching this - they are seeing Russia as the rational actor, or at least a lot more rational. Compare that to the West and their full-throttle support for Palestinian genocide.
Yeah, I can understand the emotions behind, "well, if the civilian population doesn't rise up and engage in open warfare against their own militarized police and actual combat military forces that protect a government that is doing bad things so its okay to kill all the civilians," but the though is a really really shitty thing to think or advocate for.
Pretty sure the theory heads could quote somebody from the past about the ineffectual nature of "revolutionary terrorism".