Russian Forces Kill Civilians, Loot for Supplies

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Russian Forces Kill Civilians, Loot for Supplies

March 19, 2022 at 6:48 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 21 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/03/19/russian-forces-kill-civilians-loot-for-supplies/

"SNIP.....

“Russian forces are killing civilians and looting stores and homes across occupied parts of southern Ukraine, residents said, as Moscow arrested elected local leaders and sought to replace them with pro-Russian collaborators,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“People arriving here from Russian-held areas over the weekend described hungry and undisciplined Russian troops shooting unarmed villagers, breaking into supermarkets and shops, and raiding homes in search of food and valuables as their own supply lines have failed.”

......SNIP"

[BigmanPigman]

1. A few weeks ago Russian troops were clubbing chickens

to death in a rural area. Thwy must be very low on supplies by now.

[crickets]

2. Link to WSJ article at Political Wire

No paywall: https://archive.ph/CuT4O

Rather long, and includes updates regarding Kherson, Melitopol, and Zaporizhzhia.

Russian attempts to seize Ukraine’s biggest cities of Kyiv and Kharkiv in the north have stalled in the face of fierce resistance. But in a rapid advance in the first week of the war, Moscow managed to take a swath of Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions.

That grab, while mostly paused in the past week, has created a land bridge between Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow seized militarily and annexed in 2014. The gains have sparked concerns in Kyiv and the West that Russia intends to permanently separate those areas from Ukraine. [snip]

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba warned that in the Kherson region, home to the only regional capital currently under Russian occupation, Russian forces are preparing to hold a referendum on separating it from Ukraine and proclaiming a so-called “people’s republic.”

Such a plan would echo the playbook Moscow employed to sever Crimea and eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk areas in 2014.

[cstanleytech]

4. Putins main goal is to at least take southern Ukraine and after that he wants Moldova.

As for northern and western Ukraine if he can pull it off what he wants he will probably give those parts to Belarus if he can capture it.

[crickets]

6. It looks that way.

Thing is, he might be able to capture it for a time, but he won't be able to keep southern Ukraine. Not this time.

[cstanleytech]

7. He will try though and if it looks like its unlikely he will then shift to

looking to agree to"peace" but he will demand the right to run oil and gas pipelines through the Ukraine with little if any of the money they generate going to the Ukrainian people.

[Maraya1969]

3. We need to send more guns. There should be no unarmed civilians.

[paleotn]

11. And the good thing about the portable stuff we're sending them....

the NLAW for instance, can be mastered in about an hour by virtually anyone. That's what made the stinger absolute magic in Russia's debacle in Afghanistan. The ultimate in "see one, do one, teach one" weapon systems.

[madville]

12. It's a good thing we haven't sued our domestic

Firearms manufacturers out of existence, everyone forgets that these companies supply our military and law enforcement and other countries as well, until they need them of course.

[AllyCat]

5. CNN reporting Mariupol residents being forcibly relocated

To camps in Russia. Putin is a monster.

[dchill]

8. It's the Russian way to have a special military operation.

Pillage.

[paleotn]

9. And that's exactly why they'll lose.

They're a mob, not an army.

[orangecrush]

10. Discipline falling apart

Not a good sign for Putin

[Alien Life Form]

13. Simple solution

KILL THEM ALL LET THEM ROT IN THE STREETS..Fucking NAZIS!