Russian commandos have killed a prominent member of Ukraine’s nationalist Right Sector group, the Russian defense ministry claimed on Monday. Taras Bobanich was accused by Moscow of causing hundreds of civilian deaths in eastern Ukraine during hostilities in 2014.

A Russian recon team killed Bobanich while on patrol about 5km south from the city of Izium in Ukraine’s Kharkov region, the ministry statement said. It said he was a deputy commander of the Right Sector responsible for reserve operations.

The ministry didn’t disclose the circumstances of Bobanich’s death. The Right Sector’s social media reported that he was killed on Friday near Izium, calling him a “legendary nationalist”.

China's Foreign Ministry said that, unlike the West, it will not rush to judgement on who is responsible for the attack on the train station in Kramatorsk until an investigation has been completed and sufficient facts are available. "As for the reports of an attack on the railway station that you mentioned, the truth and the causes should certainly be established. However, we believe that humanitarian issues should not be politicized and all accusations should be based on facts. The parties should avoid groundless accusations and stay calm until the investigation presents its conclusions."

Ukraine tried to evacuate neo-Nazi Azov leaders from Mariupol through the port using a dry cargo vessel named "Apache". Russian forces hit the ship and a fire broke out. The crew surrendered and the vessel is now being towed to the port of Yeysk. Previously, Ukraine command tried to evacuate the Azov leaders using Mi-8 helicopters. All three were shot down.

The Japanese Security Service has removed the Azov Nazi regiment from its list of terrorist organizations, along with an apology for the former designation. “We regret that the Azov Battalion has been designated as a neo-Nazi organization in the International Terrorism 2021 handbook.”

High Representative of the European Union Josep Borrel visited Ukraine on April 8th and said “this war must be won on the battlefield” as he committed another 500 million Euros to the war. What a warmongering douche.

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Training kids to be Banderas. It won't be long before they are taping taping other kids to trees and beating them bloody for having Russian accents.

Kids playing war in Ukraine. Asking people to pronounce the magic Ukrianian word that's difficult to pronounce for Russian speakers.
Language discrimination and racism in Ukraine.

The HAU (Holy Army of Ukraine) laying mines in residential neighborhoods and taking up positions among houses to draw Russian fire.

Citizen journalism in Slavyansk. Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) use people and children as a "human shield". This video was made near boarding school number 2. Women are arguing with the AFU men who are preparing positions and laying mines around the territory.

#Ukraine #warcrimes

Ukrainian soldier confesses to murdering a woman who refused to let him rape her.

Captured Ukrainian fighters confess to their crimes against civilians, shooting women for refusing 'to go to another room' and killing random people for not being able to pronounce 'palianytsia' correctly.

6 out of the 7 people in my house now have fevers from covid. I'm the last man standing! But since I'm taking care of all of them, I'm bound to get it too. Yay! Anyway, my news posting will continue to be a little sporadic until I've got a bit more free time. 😀

Words matter. When we use the wrong words, we contribute to the creation of a false reality... People with testicles aren't women, for example. Misusing the word has led mainstream news outlets to claim that men have menstrual cycles and can give birth to babies.

Incorrect information leads to real world impacts, such as teachers being fired for not being willing to indoctrinate students with fad theories on biology. The further result are school systems brimming with teachers who present falsehoods without any opposition. An entire generation of kids grows up believing untruth to be truth.

So the words we use matters.

It is now popular to accuse Putin and Russia of carrying out genocide in Ukraine. Putin is not trying to wipe out the Ukrainian people.

Arguments can be made as to whether or not Russian forces are guilty of indiscriminately killing too many civilians in the process of fighting the Ukrainian military.

But the word GENOCIDE has a specific meaning. The evidence does not support the propaganda that there is an effort to target civilians en masse because of their ethnicity.

On the other hand we can see many videos that suggests that Ukrainian forces and civilian nationalists are targeting and killing people based on their Russian ethnicity.

There is no evidence of Russians expressing widespread desire to kill people people because they are Ukrainian. There is ample evidence of Ukrainians expressing widespread desire to kill people because they are Russian.

They are also also tens of thousands of examples in social media of pro Ukrainians expressing that Russians should be killed wherever they are found.

The consequence of falsely claiming that Russia is guilty of genocide include increasing polarization and hatred of the Russian people.

Also, the loss of perspective on the security reasons behind the Russian invasion is significant.

Claiming genocide dehumanizes and demonizes Russia. While war is sometimes justified depending on the circumstances, genocide is never justified under any circumstance. And that of course is the reason that the West is now accusing Russia of genocide.

Claiming genocide also absolves Ukraine of the responsibility of engaging in good faith negotiations to bring about an end of the war. There can be no negotiation with a party that is simply determined to wipe all of your people out of existence.

So the use of the phrase genocide by the West is intended to prevent any progress toward peace to be made through negotiations.

We should push back against the use of the word genocide in social media so that we can reduce the power of that propaganda that is intended to prolong and even expand the conflict.

Our goal should be to advocate for an end to the war as quickly as possible... before these maniacs drag the entire world into a nuclear holocaust.

Further evidence that the mainstream media is in bed with the US government as they jointly carry out a major PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR against the American people. CNN featured an interview with a poor, downtrodden evacuee from Mariupol who told the world about the evil being committed by Russia.

Except, CNN failed to mention a few important things: 1) Alina Beskrovna is a long-time US State Department asset, 2) She was trained by the US State Dept as a "future leader" 3) She collaborated with Secretary of State John Kerry and VP Joe Biden when they were actively helping to orchestrate the Maidan coup of 2014.

Even the smallest among mainstream media stations know that presenting such information is necessary to put witness statements into context. To not mention her long-time ties to the US government is worse than journalistic malpractice.