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newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
@newjaninev2 Oh, Ferise scoffs at anyone, anything and everything.
I did watch that video he refers us to, but with some misgivings as I knew it would be partial, and parts of its commentary sound almost like an advertisement for the AFV builders. Some background music in one or two scenes is rather jarring.
However, any equivalent video from the Russian side, if any exists at all, would likely be even more partial.
What we do glimpse is the destruction beyond that of military equipment, with shattered trees and at least two buildings that were probably farm houses, ruined by the fighting.
Not only mass-murder, but mass abductions too, with many Ukrainians including unaccompanied children known to have been taken far into Russia. Some even as far as towns near Vladivostok - their journeys by trains and buses lasting over a week. I fear they will never be allowed to return home, even if their physical homes survive.
One place we hear or see very little from now is Mariupol, the once-industrial city destroyed by Russia. The Russians later staged a propaganda event there by refurbishing a block of flats that had escaped serious damage, and with anything blue and yellow repainted in their own colours, showing a group of people enjoying a good meal in one of the flats. As I recall, even Putin was there.
It is extremely unlikely journalists can go anywhere near the town; but the destruction might show on Google Earth if that has been able to obtain recent images. The overwhelming colours of the steelworks and harbour were already black (coal-dust) and brown (rust!) and there was plenty of apparently derelict ground nearby; but post-fighting photographs would show war damage.
I did watch that video he refers us to, but with some misgivings as I knew it would be partial, and parts of its commentary sound almost like an advertisement for the AFV builders. Some background music in one or two scenes is rather jarring.
However, any equivalent video from the Russian side, if any exists at all, would likely be even more partial.
What we do glimpse is the destruction beyond that of military equipment, with shattered trees and at least two buildings that were probably farm houses, ruined by the fighting.
Not only mass-murder, but mass abductions too, with many Ukrainians including unaccompanied children known to have been taken far into Russia. Some even as far as towns near Vladivostok - their journeys by trains and buses lasting over a week. I fear they will never be allowed to return home, even if their physical homes survive.
One place we hear or see very little from now is Mariupol, the once-industrial city destroyed by Russia. The Russians later staged a propaganda event there by refurbishing a block of flats that had escaped serious damage, and with anything blue and yellow repainted in their own colours, showing a group of people enjoying a good meal in one of the flats. As I recall, even Putin was there.
It is extremely unlikely journalists can go anywhere near the town; but the destruction might show on Google Earth if that has been able to obtain recent images. The overwhelming colours of the steelworks and harbour were already black (coal-dust) and brown (rust!) and there was plenty of apparently derelict ground nearby; but post-fighting photographs would show war damage.
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@Ferise1
I'm extremely biased against barbaric mass murder of children and babies, the systematic kidnapping and marketing of tens of thousands of Ukraine's children, and deliberate targeting of hospitals, schools, residential areas, and civilian infrastructure.
If the russians would simply stop doing that and get off every square centimetre of Ukraine's soil - back to their 1991 borders - there'd be no problem.
russians - always playing the victim.
she’s extremely biased against Russians
I'm extremely biased against barbaric mass murder of children and babies, the systematic kidnapping and marketing of tens of thousands of Ukraine's children, and deliberate targeting of hospitals, schools, residential areas, and civilian infrastructure.
If the russians would simply stop doing that and get off every square centimetre of Ukraine's soil - back to their 1991 borders - there'd be no problem.
russians - always playing the victim.
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
