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BULLET HOLES | An investigation into Russia’s systemic killings of Ukrainian children

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Russian soldiers deliberately kill Ukrainian kids, new film says



KYIV — Russia’s army has killed more than 500 children in Ukraine since the start of its full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukrainian prosecutors say.

In the new documentary “Bullet holes,” journalists from the Kyiv Independent — a Ukrainian English-language news website — tell stories of three children killed by Russian troops in Ukraine: 10-year-old Kateryna Vinarska; 12-year-old Vladyslav Mahdyk; and 15-year-old Mykhailo Ustianivsky.

All three were shot dead by Russians at close range, according to Kyiv Independent reporters.

Vinarska was killed by Russian soldiers as they shot at a civilian car belonging to her grandparents at a checkpoint in an occupied village in the Kharkiv region. Mahdyk was shot dead by a single Russian bullet that also wounded his older sister as the family was trying to evacuate from Russian-occupied territory in the Kyiv region. And Ustianivsky was shot in the back for running away from a Russian armored vehicle in his village in the Kherson region, also occupied by Russian forces.

Their killers remain unpunished, and the children’s families are devastated — and want justice.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the Center for Civil Liberties — a Ukrainian watchdog documenting Russian war crimes — who is also featured in the film, said that Russia is deliberately using terror against civilians to break Ukraine’s resistance.

“These crimes are committed in all regions and they continue. We are ready to prove it in court. Because it is time to break the circle of impunity and cruelty that has become part of Russian culture,” Matviichuk told the Kyiv Independent in the film.

As of September, 504 children had been killed in Ukraine as a result of Russian aggression, Ukrainian prosecutors say.

Russia has repeatedly denied committing war crimes in Ukraine and even blamed Kyiv for killing its own people, claiming it only invaded Ukraine to prevent genocide.

Ukrainian officials have long fumed at Moscow’s accusations.

“Can a state use false allegations of genocide as a pretext to destroy cities, bomb civilians, and deport children from their homes? When the Genocide Convention is so cynically abused, is this court powerless? The answer to these questions must be no,” said Ukraine’s representative Anton Korynevych, during the recent World Court hearings in The Hague, where Kyiv has sued Moscow for abusing the Genocide Convention.

In turn, Kyiv says that Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine show signs of genocide. But the U.N. Commission of Inquiry has not yet found enough evidence to conclude Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine.

“This a matter of intent, the intent of the criminals, there must be a ‘need’ to destroy a certain group. And such destruction, according to the Genocide Convention, must be physical or biological,” Erik Møse, chair of the U.N. commission, said during a press briefing in Kyiv.

However, the commission has already found evidence of wilful killings, torture, sexual violence, unlawful transfers and deportations committed by Russian troops, the commission said in a statement.

Even though officials find it hard to prove Russian intent behind the killings of civilians, journalists believe that public attention to these crimes can help to bring justice.

“If we keep documenting, if [we] remember, if we keep talking about these crimes, Russians will pay for that,” said Olga Rudenko, the Kyiv Independent chief editor.

https://www.politico.eu/a(...)ren-documentary-war/

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Op donderdag 21 september 2023 19:07 schreef Nebelwerfer het volgende:

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Waaraan dan?

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In a shocking revelation, a Russian soldier stationed on the frontlines in Ukraine has exposed a horrifying situation in which his commanding officers are consuming alcohol and brutally assaulting their subordinates for similar behavior.

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The soldier’s mental anguish becomes evident as he shares that when he attempted to voice his concerns, his commanding officer presented him with two grim options – either a stint in a dry-out clinic for alcoholics or admission to a psychiatric hospital.

What particularly disturbs the soldier is the fact that, despite their own drinking habits, the commanding officers resort to severe physical violence when they detect alcohol on the breath of a soldier. He laments to his friend, “They themselves drink. And if they find a soldier who smells of alcohol, they beat him with a stick, you know?” He goes on to recount an incident where a commander’s beating left a fellow soldier with broken ribs and a concussion.

The soldier concludes his harrowing account with a poignant statement, “They get all the honors and medals, and we just get beat up all the time.”

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Op donderdag 21 september 2023 20:26 schreef ExTec het volgende:

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Die jij toevallig dan ook start.

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Op donderdag 21 september 2023 20:33 schreef polderturk het volgende:

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Illegale bezetting.

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Russians bring student teachers to the occupied territories to "work" with children.

The students will teach Ukrainian children a pseudo-history of their native land, this is part of the so-called "Pedagogical landing" programme. The main purpose of these classes is to convince children that the occupied territories belong to the Russian Federation and to try to influence their views and consciousness.

In fact," explains the Centre for National Resistance, the Russian "guest workers" are going to pursue a policy of genocide aimed at destroying the consciousness of an entire generation of Ukrainians. "Gastroliers" from the Russian Federation will tell Ukrainian children about their "belonging to Russia" and shift the responsibility for the war to Ukraine.

The CNS noted that every "tourist" from the Russian Federation will be identified and will be held responsible for crimes against the Ukrainian people.

At the same time, Russia is setting up a military command school under the leadership of the defence ministry in temporarily occupied Donetsk. It is planned that this will be a higher educational institution "Donetsk Higher Combined Arms Command School", which should begin its activities by 1 December 2023.

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Ukrainian 47th Brigade posts a drone video of a failed Russian assault culminating in a friendly fire incident. Lead tank hits mines, then the infantry company that follows it is hit with a TOS-1 thermobaric barrage. Novoprokopivka - Robotyne road, Sept 2023

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Op donderdag 21 september 2023 20:43 schreef Nebelwerfer het volgende:

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Het binnenvallen van een land mag best veroordeeld worden. Alleen wil niet zeggen dat de soldaten die bevelen opvolgen meteen schuld hebben.

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Op donderdag 21 september 2023 20:48 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
https://en.socportal.info(...)dlya-raboty-s-detmi/
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Op donderdag 21 september 2023 20:58 schreef SillyWalks het volgende:

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Jawel, die kiezen ervoor om mee te doen.

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Op donderdag 21 september 2023 18:19 schreef Nebelwerfer het volgende:
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Ik vind dit toch echt schuren tegen een oorlogsmisdaad. Verlagen tot het niveau waarvan Russen beticht worden.

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Op donderdag 21 september 2023 21:01 schreef QWARQTAARTJE het volgende:

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Wat is de andere keuze? Er zijn er ook die opgepakt worden of anders gemarteld worden dus ik begrijp wel dat ze dan meevechten

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Op donderdag 21 september 2023 21:04 schreef ExTec het volgende:

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Revolutie. Die dingen bestaan hé? Zijn in de menselijke geschiedenis met enige regelmaat voorgekomen om een despoot van de troon te trappen.

En ja, daar laten mensen het leven bij. Maar de bodycount aan rus zijde zit nu ergens ten noorden van 250.000 man.

10% daarvan had met gemak putin kunnen lynchen.

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Op donderdag 21 september 2023 21:07 schreef QWARQTAARTJE het volgende:

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Tja, dat is ook wel eerder in Rusland gebeurd idd maar aangezien velen in zijn propaganda geloven zal het niet gebeuren.

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Op donderdag 21 september 2023 21:03 schreef oheng het volgende:

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Als een vijandelijk leger NL binnenvalt, en bepaalde dierbare personen van mij iets overkomt, dan weet ik van mezelf dat de meest ergste oorlogsmisdaden mogelijk zijn.

Dus ik oordeel niet. Onder bepaalde (psychologische) omstandigheden vind ik dit zeer begrijpelijk.

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Op donderdag 21 september 2023 21:20 schreef ExTec het volgende:
Ah, de duitse formulieren steken weer de kop op.

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Op donderdag 21 september 2023 21:22 schreef Starhopper het volgende:

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Duitsers met hun administratie

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Op donderdag 21 september 2023 21:07 schreef Discombobulate het volgende:
Geen ATACMS dus, volgens Biden.