The US Embassy in Kiev (KEE-ev) has accused Russia of “kidnapping” more than 2,000 children from Eastern Ukraine, which Azov was using as human shields.
Most people would call this a “rescue.” But not the US Foreign Service. They believe hostage rescue is kidnapping – if it is done by Russians.
According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Russian forces have illegally removed 2,389 Ukrainian children from Donetsk and Luhanks oblasts to Russia. This is not assistance. It is kidnapping.
— U.S. Embassy Kyiv (@USEmbassyKyiv) March 22, 2022
Iryna Venediktova, the Ukraine’s prosecutor general, is echoing these claims.
Russian forces are not only targeting and killing our children, but also forcibly moving them to the RF. Investigation is ongoing on the forcible transfer of 2,389 children from temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia. @MFA_Ukraine #RussianWarCrimes
— Iryna Venediktova (@VenediktovaIV) March 21, 2022
The Ukrainians have consistently refused to allow anyone to leave cities, because they want to use them as human shields. Russia engaged in repeated diplomatic talks with the Ukrainians about opening aid corridors to evacuate civilians, and the Ukrainians sabotaged the negotiations.
Now, Russians are unilaterally establishing their own aid corridors to get civilians out of Ukrainian cities. It is really “Operation: Rescue Human Shields.”
The videos of Azov opening fire on civilians trying to flee and stopping cars and pulling people out and beating them have all apparently been cleansed from Twitter and I can’t find them right now. But we all saw those videos, and we saw a dozen translated interviews of Ukrainians being freed from Mariupol and thanking the Russians, explaining that Azov was starving them as they used them as human shields.
We did upload the video to our own server of these satanists keeping a house full of human shields face down on the floor while they laughed and played the Terminator theme song on a piano.
Meanwhile, this is what Ukrainian civilians see reaching out to them and saying “come with me if you want to live”:
There is no single human on earth who is not a media zombie who believes that Russia is doing anything other than being extremely careful with civilians.
As a long-time US diplomat told Grey Zone this week, the typical war casualty ratio is one civilian dead for every one soldier dead, and Russia, according to official numbers, is doing under 10% of that.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainians are literally opening fire on their own people who are trying to flee.
They are also forcing people into theaters and then bombing the theater to accuse the Russians of doing it.
There’s no way to know the exact numbers, but it is just obvious from anyone following this that the Ukrainians have killed a lot more Ukrainian civilians than the Russians have. I think by the end of this conflict, Ukrainians will have killed ten times the number of civilians the Russians have killed.
Russian Child Kidnapping? Really?
Are Russians the real child kidnappers though?
I mean – think about history. Is there any history of Russians being accused of kidnapping children?
Like, do Russians run a Wikipedia page devoted to claiming that hundreds of years of stories about Russians kidnapping children across multiple cultures and continents are untrue?
Have Russians written hundreds of books explaining that they definitely do not, under any circumstances, kidnap children?
Have Russians been so consistently accused of child kidnapping that they formulated an entire terminology – really an entire academic discipline – designed to respond to ongoing claims of child kidnapping?
If so, I’m unaware of this.
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