In this 9th Debunk of the Day, we’ll discuss “legitimate military targets”. Russia illegally invaded Ukraine, without a declaration of war, hiding behind a “special military operation”. Yet vatniks and useful idiots still pretend Russia has any legitimate or lawful targets whatsoever in Ukraine.

Russia started the war in 2014 by seizing Crimea with unmarked soldiers, the “little green men”, which Putin initially denied but later acknowledged.

Russians have been waging an undeclared, illegal war with endless war crimes ever since, whether it’s the kidnapping of Ukrainian children with genocidal intent…

Tortures and sexual abuses

… the concentration camps for Ukrainians under occupation, conscripting Ukrainians from occupied territories, or the terrorist, deliberate bombing of civilians, including their infamous “double tap” strikes.

So no, Russia does not have any “legitimate targets” in Ukraine.

Deliberately targeting civilians is a war crime and terrorism, and Russia has been doing that from the start. MH17 is an early example. They have also been using state-funded terrorist organizations like Wagner, and in fact they often boast about their acts of terrorism.

But sometimes, vatniks pretend they’re only targeting military targets in Ukraine, with civilian casualties being mere collateral damage. This is a lie of course: hospitals, evacuation corridors, power plants, buildings marked “children”, whole cities: they bomb everything.

Accusations of “putting civilians in harm’s way” against Ukraine ignore both the fact of who’s the aggressor doing the harm here, and naively assume the terrorist aggressor would avoid civilian targets, when in fact the opposite is true: they target them deliberately.

Ukrainians are in their own country. They did not start this war. They did not attack Russia and then “hide behind civilians” — when military units are present in civilian areas, it is precisely to protect them from Russian terrorism.

Russia should not be bombing Ukraine, period.

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