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By EVGENIY MALOLETKA LYIV, Ukraine©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Monty
What else and what more must happen before the NATO will jump in and finish this madness?
PTownsend
I expwct soon the anti-NATO, pro--Putin online army members to come along with their 'fake news, western media are biased' and the 'Ukrainians created the problem just to make Russia look bad' similar to how they defended the Russians bombing hospitals and killing children in Syria. Followed by a series of what-abouts.
Cricky
It was an air strike, not artillery and the Ukrainians don’t bomb their own civilians. It’s just part of the random attack plan on civilians expect worse as the Russians don’t care.
tooheysnew
& We are all fed up with the typical pathetic responses from Putin lovers -
It wasn’t the Russians, it was the Ukrainians bombing their own hospitals
Haaa Nemui
this is Ukraine, not Syria. Can you confirm this is happening here? These people defending their country are not extremists.
and Russia is invading illegally in the first place.
The Avenger
The hate for Putin has a uniting effect if you are truly a US citizen. Go President Biden. You got Putin’s head in a Vice. Keep tightening until his head explodes.
stormcrow
The barbarism continues. Deliberately bombing a maternity hospital, unbelievable. Barbarians . . . animals.
Sh1mon M4sada
Biden is sticking to his 'escargot' - stay in shell, lid shut strategy rather than escalate like Putin has been since day 1.
Meanwhile...back at the ranch....
Michael Machida
@Mr. Noidall
Your comments are utterly without merit.
Haaa Nemui
And by their being in Ukraine illegally that is actually worse for everyone.
Cricky
I don’t believe they deliberately targeted the hospital, they simply don’t have the skills, training to do that. Sure they can fire at an urban area. What they hit is totally random. Both pilots and particularly artillery are not that well trained or supplied with equipment, communications that advanced countries take as standard. It’s a huge group of armed young men who have absolutely no idea what they are doing and as a result we get collateral damage that’s not intentional but to be expected.
Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne
Very disturbing gravesite photo !
Maternity Hospital victims slaughtered needlessly and then thrown in a ditch like trash.
Very innapropriate !
Very sad !
Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne
Efficiently without ceremony ?
Thats just horribly Efficient and shame on them no ceremony.
Very very sad !
Jero Sakura
Joe Biden's sanction was powerful enough to stop those missiles?
UChosePoorly
War is hell. That's why we try to avoid it.
PTownsend
I want to assume those defending Putin do NOT have families, for fear their lineage would continue and carry this carnage on for future generations. Stop this madness, remove Putin and his fellow insane, criminal fascists from power.
Monty
I want to assume those defending Putin do NOT have families,
And you know what...
It is assumed that Putin hides his 30 years younger girlfriend (or probably she is his wife already) and their children in Switzerland.
They enjoy a very safe and nice life in Switzerland, during this mass-murderer Putin and his insane mob are killing innocent children.
rainyday
And on cue the Putin apologists are here to tell us that Russian planes dropping Russian bombs on a children's hospital is the fault of everybody except Russia.
Because of course nothing Russia ever does is ever Russia's fault.
YeahRight
That last paragraph made me literally start crying.
ArtistAtLarge
NATO will do not anything, nor has any obligation to do anything, because the Ukraine is not part of NATO.
To do so, would indeed, cause WWIII. Nobody in their right mind wants WWIII.
starpunk
Russia under Putin's thumb is guilty of serious war crimes, at home and abroad. Russian intervened in Georgia a few years ago, installing a puppet. In 2016 thru cyberhacking they installed a puppet in office of POTUS. Trump supporters are really Putin supporters. Last month they installed a puppet in Kazakhstan.
Putin is trying to be a post-Communist 21st century czar.
Fighto!
Sickening and outrageous - but the fascist Russians have shown no hesitation in targeting hospitals, schools and apartment buildings. The aim is to bomb and kill the Ukrainians into submission and surrender.
They will never succeed. Madman Putin has severely underestimated the will of the Ukrainian people in fighting to defend THEIR land and their childrens freedom. Indepedent Ukraine is here to stay, as are the Ukrainian people. They will never give up their homeland.
PTownsend
It’s against the Geneva Convention to use hospitals as military facilities.
Once again the Russians didn't do it', it's 'western media making Russia look bad' defense comes out, just like it did while Russians were bombing hospitals, weddings and schools in Syria and blaming it on the 'other guys'. The 'others guys did it' defense is one used by thugs everywhere, how about the Russian mafia, or are they the same as Putin's other thugs, maybe his football gangs. Is the 'other guys did it' defense what Russian thugs use after they get caught commiting a crime. But an 'honest Russian leader' has never been a term I've ever heard. Nor have I heard anyone say 'a Russian with integrity'.
tooheysnew
that’s the Russian military’s standard go-to tactics.
They did it in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Syria.
tooheysnew
let’s not forget the muppets, I mean puppets in Belarus
Sh1mon M4sada
...but in Syria Turkey's lone (ie no help from NATO) no fly zone stopped Putin's murderous bomb anything campaign.
Sh1mon M4sada
Do you truly believe Putin will stop at Ukraine? Especially now that he has sized up NATO as all talk no walk?
snowymountainhell
One of Putin’s own daughters, his eldest, Mariya Putina Faassen is a pediatric endocrinologist in Russia. Medical professionals across the world are pleading with her Mariya to speak to Putin and speak out against his actions.
snowymountainhell
While other women & children are being killed, Putin’s long-time lover and the mother of 4 of his recent children, former Olympian Gold-medalist Alina Kabaeva, is believed to be hiding out with the 4 youngest of his children in a luxury estate in Switzerland, surrounded by a cadre of Putin’s chosen security. -
Rodney
Pentagon/CIA has an active training program to help Ukraine to stop Russia from advancing. It involves placing military, far right nationalists in civilian locations. This playbook has been confirmed as way not to put NATO boots on the ground. It is disgusting. Also great Tv ratings and wonderful propaganda against Russia.
ukraine government, if they really care about their people, just recognize Donbass, and Ukraine independence. Then Russia will retreat, and I don’t have to play double for bread in Japan.
UChosePoorly
There it is