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[Sassy Colombian]

More proof that the massacres being committed by Russian troops and the mercenary Wagner group have been a deliberate strategy by Russia.

 

[Sassy Colombian]

Yes! I hope this motion passes today, it would be absurd to continue allowing Russia to be part of the Council after all the atrocities they have committed in Ukraine.

 

[Yarrgh]

UN is falling apart and ineffectual as was the League of Nations before WW2. Very worrying times. If Trump or similar comes back as a non-interventionist president, could be disastrous for Europe.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

News from India. The article itself is descriptive and takes an alternate view that it is not the Russians who are the bad guys.

The videos in twitter links (pro Putin) are not nice so maybe do not play them if you get easily upset.

Videos emerge showing Ukrainian troops torturing and killing Russian POWs

According to local Ukrainian reports, the attack on the Russian Prisoners of War (POW) was carried out by the "Georgian Legion", a group of Georgian volunteers formed in 2014 to fight for Ukraine. | OpIndia News

www.opindia.com

 

[peteblue]

This is also monstrous behaviour. Two wrongs never make anything right.

If true it’s also incredibly stupid. Ukraine holds the moral high ground and shouldn’t let it be thrown away….

 

[Goat]

Its tit for tat and it potentially started right after that vid came out showing the Ukraines shooting POWs.

Disgusting from both sides.

 

[efcfanwirral]

There are apparently new videos of execution of Russian prisoners, verified by New York Times.

I just don't understand why people taping it, you commiting war crime, and you showing your face in the process? And then even worse, uploading it on internet.

Even worse, stuff like that gonna result with reprisals, your own soldiers who surrender gonna pay the price.

Wouldn't 100% rule out undercover operatives, but I'd imagine some don't even think that deeply and think that putting it online will strike fear into the enemy. Clearly that small benefit would be completely outweighed by the PR disaster it creates especially when they're trying to drag us in there to help them.

 

[tsubaki]

This is also monstrous behaviour. Two wrongs never make anything right.

we should make the next few shipments of weapons conditional on those men being handed over, put them on trial at the Hague for murder

 

[Bluerover]

Yes! I hope this motion passes today, it would be absurd to continue allowing Russia to be part of the Council after all the atrocities they have committed in Ukraine.

Needs 2/3 majority. We will see what nations are in Putin's pocket.

 

[efcfanwirral]

we should make the next few shipments of weapons conditional on those men being handed over, put them on trial at the Hague for murder

Absolutely - whatever the circumstances they need to be held to the same standards as everyone else

 

[Bluerover]

we should make the next few shipments of weapons conditional on those men being handed over, put them on trial at the Hague for murder

Mate, as posted earlier, no one went on trial for the massacres of Katyn, Hamburg, Dresden etc. in WW2

All war is wrong. I will not condone Ukrainian crimes although I am so angry at Russia.

In our Civil War the Free State Government executed at least 77 prisoners including my great uncle. No records of a trial were left behind when there was a change of Government in 1932. Everything destroyed.

Thank God we have left that savagery behind.

So sad to see what is now happening in Ukraine.

 

[JammyP]

'The new Auschwitz': Bodies of '10,000 Ukrainians' incinerated in mobile crematoriums

 

[Sassy Colombian]

Needs 2/3 majority. We will see what nations are in Putin's pocket.

I guess 2/3 of countries believe the actions by Russia were well deserved of expulsion ??

 

[devogue]

 

[Whiteandblue]

This is not necessarily a good thing... Are they paving the way for conscription, "For the Motherland!"?