Zionuts

[Loki]

* Kharkiv and Kherson were never carpet bombed. Kherson in particular was taken with barely a shot fired at the start of the war, so much so that the Ukrainians suspect treachery.

Up to 1,000 dead in Izium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izium_mass_graves
10k+ graves (generally, with more than one person per grave) in Mariupol: https://apnews.com/article/russia-uk...811655f14931f2
A single site in Lyman with 200 graves: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/w...iscovered.html
Mass graves and torture sites in Kherson: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/torture...ssias-retreat/
A thousand dead in Kharkiv region (mostly in Izium) and over a thousand in Kyv: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/larg...kraine/2847788
Indiscriminate artillery fire at Kherson: https://www.rferl.org/a/residents-uk.../32661951.html
80-200 dead in Borodianka: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Borodianka

* Russia is indiscriminately bombing Ukrainian cities, but these attacks are sporadic, ineffectual and mostly intercepted and of a much lower intensity than the Israel air campaign in Gaza

So Russia gets brownie points for trying but failing to kill additional Ukrainians?

* They didn't massacre the entire town of Bucha, they killed ~500 people.

Nice of them to only butcher 500 in the span of a month.

* Since Feb 2nd 2022 Russia occupied an additional 119k km2 of Ukrainian territory on top of what they occupied since 2014. Since then, Ukraine has liberated about 74k km2, meaning Ukraine has in fact retaken a majority of territory Russia occupied since the start of the war.

That's misleading. Russia controlled much of that territory for only a month. And in that month, Russia managed to carry out multiple massacres. Who knows how many have been imprisoned or killed in territory Russia still controls? Torture is rampant: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/10/w...e-torture.html

Over a million Ukrainian civilians, including a quarter million children, forcibly relocated to Russia as of a year ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia...for_Ukrainians

Putin (and other top Russian officials) are on record saying the Ukrainian nation doesn't exist, thereby advocating genocide: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/o...-identity.html
Ukrainian-language books have been banned and Russian teachers have been imported to erase the Ukrainian identity in Russian-occupied territories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrono...n#21st_century

The only reason Russia hasn't wiped out the Ukrainian nation (at least in the eastern half of the country) is because of its second-rate military. Once again, should we be thankful to Russia for trying but failing to commit genocide?