DISINFO: Russia's missile strikes are selective and humane not to hurt civilians
SUMMARY
The Russian military carried out strikes with high-precision weapons at objects where there were no civilians.
It is Putin and Russia, and not Zelensky and Kyiv, who are striving to save the lives of peaceful Ukrainian citizens to the maximum.
It was not a Russian cruise missile that flew into the same "Klitschko bridge" in Kyiv (from the impact of which a funnel would have been larger, and the bridge itself would not have resisted), but a Ukrainian air defense missile.
There was no missile attack on any nuclear power plant or hydroelectric power plant in Ukraine, which could lead to unpredictable consequences with a large number of casualties among the population.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin narratives on the absolute absence of civilian causalities due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At that Vladimir Putin admitted Russia bombs the civilian infrastructure in retaliation to the explosion of the Kerch bridge.
There is rich evidence that Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine, such as the shelling of shopping malls, killing civilians, raping, as well as using imprecise weapons.
From 24 February 2022, when the Russian Federation’s armed attack against Ukraine started, to 9 October 2022, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 15,592 civilian casualties in the country: 6,221 killed and 9,371 injured.
On October 10, Russian strikes of the civilian infrastructure strikes killed at least 14 people in Ukraine and disrupted electricity in some regions. A pedestrian on Kyiv's Klichko bridge had a narrow escape when a Russian missile hit the walkway. No evidence is given that it was due to the Ukrainian anti-missile system.
IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi has said in April 2022 that Russian missiles over Ukraine's nuclear power plants could cause a nuclear accident.
The site of the Rivne nuclear power plant (NPP) in the town of Varash in the Rivne region in western Ukraine was under fire on October 10. Ukrainian air defence systems was active to intercept drones and missiles.
There is no evidence to support the claims that "the Ukronazis are shooting precisely at places where civilians potentially accumulate". The Ukrainian authorities did not systematically exterminate or abuse the people living in the conflict zone. The claimed dead people – military and civilian alike - are a result of a war Russia had started in Ukraine. It was not an internal civil conflict but a well-documented act of aggression by Russian armed forces, ongoing since February 2014. The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine which has closely monitored the conflict has observed no such genocide.
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