cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/44151259
Russian pro-war sources have published a video of a drone strike on a UN convoy in Ukraine. The footage surfaced on the morning of Oct. 15 via the Telegram channel “From Mariupol to the Carpathians,” which is associated with Russian UAV operators in the Kherson sector. The Ukrainian side had reported a truck attack on Oct. 14, and the UN stated that the incident could be considered a war crime.
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The truck targeted by the drone bears the inscription WFP — the abbreviation for the World Food Programme. On top of the trucks, the UN abbreviation is also visible, marking them as United Nations vehicles.
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The strike on the convoy was reported on Oct. 14 by Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of Ukraine’s Kherson Regional Military Administration. One of the four trucks burned out completely, and another sustained serious damage. There were no reported casualties.
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, Matthias Schmale, called the deliberate attack on humanitarian workers and facilities a severe violation of international humanitarian law. He emphasized that it could be considered a war crime.
Unfortunately, no one seems to care about international law anymore:
- Israel kidnaps civilians in international waters
- Russia strikes UN convoys
- The US is striking random boats in international waters
- China violating Philippine EEZ
- etc.
Given how we’ve seen israel treated over the last few years, I imagine this will only be good for russia
Moscow should be levelled and Russia should be allowed to splinter into smaller states. If only to make northern Asia more interesting.
It’s not about splintering, it’s about decolonisation. A continental colonial empire is still a colonial empire (just look at the state of local language education in most russian “republics”).
