Moving the goalposts again. You said evidence of ethnic cleansing, not a report of ceasefire violations, which, as you are well aware, cover all combat activities, including unmanned systems.
The shelling of a school, a kindergarten, and residential areas along the line of contact in eastern Ukraine on February 17, 2022, apparently by Russia-backed armed groups, injured civilians and damaged civilian infrastructure, Human Rights Watch said today.
Bro, you're so bad at this that you're providing me evidence for MY argument.
On 7 October 2014 in Zuhres, 53-year-old Ukrainian Ihor Kozhoma, who was trying to take his wife out of the occupied territory, was tied to a column and tortured for several hours by Russians and local separatists.
Did he deserve to be tortured and killed?
Donetsk civilian resident Iryna Dovhan was publicly tortured for her pro-Ukrainian position in August 2014.
Did she deserve to be tortured?
A member of Human Rights Watch witnessed the exhumation of a mass grave in Sloviansk that was uncovered after insurgents retreated from the city.
Did those people deserve to be murdered and flung in a ditch?
Which side of this war has been unable to make any significant territorial gains in the last 3 years, engages in disastrous WWI era infantry assaults, and is increasingly relying on poorly trained foreigners, including Indians and Africans?
Hint: it ain't the Ukrainians.
Maybe "failures" mean something different to the Sputnik readers.
That a patch makes the massacre of women and children excusable? Somehow a piece of fabric makes it okay to kill civilians?
IF that guy is actually wearing that patch, fine. Prosecute him. Doesn't excuse, justify, or invalidate the MOUNTAIN of evidence of Russian war crimes.
All we can do is push back with facts. Invariably, their arguments devolve into whataboutism and name-calling because they know there aren't any facts that back up their bullshit.
As long as they're the ones crashing out, we come out of those interactions looking better than they do.
Like I'm going to dox myself. I guarantee you, I'm not from where you'd think.