By Paul D. Shinkman
Russia on Tuesday claimed its missile strike (click here) on a shopping mall in central Ukraine that killed more than a dozen civilians in fact hit a military munitions depot, defying international condemnation of an apparent war crime at a time Western countries supporting Kyiv are moving toward new strategies to break the increasingly deadly conflict there.
“The hangar was bombed, where European and American weapons and ammunition arrived,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday morning during a meeting with ministers of the Caspian states....
An earlier attack was on Kyiv's residential areas. It was this strike matched with that of the shopping mall that lead me to the conclusion the river was being used to hit the people of Ukraine. Both these strikes resulted in the death of children. That is genocide. It is completely indiscriminate in the place where the bombs land. If Russia does not have the capacity to avoid areas where innocent people and their children live, work, attend school and shop then Russia should not be conducting such attacks. To continue these strikes matched with the deaths since the beginning of Russia's illegal invasion dictates it is genocide.
June 26, 2022
...One person died and at least six were wounded (click here) in a Russian missile strike that hit a residential apartment block in Kyiv. The city’s Deputy Mayor, Volodymyr Bondarenko, said four of the injured were admitted to the hospital as search and rescue operations continue.
Bondarenko also said a kindergarten was hit in the missile strike but no one was injured, and video from Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs showed a large missile funnel in the backyard of the kindergarten.
Those injured in the residential block included a 7-year-old girl, he said. Her mother, a 35-year-old woman named Katerina, was rescued from the rubble and put into an ambulance. She is a citizen of Russia, but had lived in Kyiv for a long time....
There is every reason to believe these strikes are facilitated by Belarus, especially along the river. If Belarus continues to support Putin's genocide it is as guilty as the Russian military and Putin himself.
These strikes coincides with NATO's meeting and additional sanctions. It could be inferred NATO is in Putin's sights and the USA is correct in putting more troops in Europe.
