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https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/17/europe/russia-military-jet-crash-yeysk-intl/index.html
Was that a direct attack on Russian civilians by Russian armed forces? :marseysmug3:
Even casualty count is similar BTW.
Civilian casualties doesn't always mean that civilians were the target. Belgorod is right near the border, it's in the range of long range munitions, but could said munitions be shot down over residential ares by anti-ballistic defenses by mistake? Yeah, they could — that's a plausible theory. And that is exactly what Ukraine claims it was by the way. Ukraine's officials have a pretty good track record as information source, Russian officials don't — see, doesn't take a lot of mental gymnastics. Demanding surgical precision from the party that is being attacked like that every day — now that would involve some.
"Multiple cities of Ukraine get targeted by a massive drone/missile attack"
Who cares? They get bombed every fucking day :marseyshrug:
"Ukrainian projectile hits residential areas in a town near the border"
Oh my god, what savage animals they are! :marseyshock:
"Israel gets targeted by projectiles every other day, most of those get shot down by anti-ballistic defenses, but not every time"
Who cares! Fucking jews :marseyshrug:
"Israel retaliates, announces an operation and carries out an airstrike, but there are civilian casualties"
Oh my god, what genocidal animals they are! :marseyshock:
Now that's what I call mental gymnastics!
Right now I have reasons to not trust even the casualty count TBH — because I never trust Russian official sources. Were independent journalists, including those from foreign information agencies still be allowed to operate, that wouldn't be a problem. Luckily, I have my own sources in Belgorod — timing isn't the best, but it won't be hard to check if it's more or less close to reality, but until then, I still have my doubts.
The fact that there were civilian casualties — I don't doubt that, neither Ukraine denies it, but the intent — that has to be investigated. Remember certain flight MH17 when versions started popping up by dozens from the Russian side: from Ukrainian jet to US satellite to ground SAM system (but the one that didn't belong to Russia) to fucking martians. I think that is what we are going to see in the coming days, place your bets.
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