Kremlin defends bombing hospital

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: USA Today

The Kremlin defended its bombing of a Ukraine hospital Thursday while the highest-level talks yet failed to reach agreement on a humanitarian cease-fire aimed at protecting Ukraine cities battered by fierce Russian assaults.

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A hospital complex in Mariupol bombed Wednesday resulted in at least three deaths, including one child, Ukraine authorities say. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed the claim Thursday, saying the hospital had been emptied of patients and was being used as an extremist base.

"This is not the first time when we see pathetic cries about so-called atrocities committed by the Russian armed forces," Lavrov said. "Our delegation presented facts at a meeting of the U.N. Security Council proving that the maternity hospital had long been seized by fighters of the Azov battalion and other radicals. They kicked all patients, all nurses, and all service personnel out."

Later, Russia denied responsibility entirely and claimed the attack was staged to make the Kremlin look bad. Russia’s Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov denied the strike. He claimed that the two explosions that ravaged the building were caused by explosive devices planted nearby in what he described as a “staged provocation to incite anti-Russian agitation in the West.”

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukrainians-flee-russian-occupied-towns-080552727.html

[Phoenix61]

1. Sheesh, don't they know first you deny,

then you claim that if you did do it you had a good reason to do it. Seems their lie machine is falling apart too.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Baghdad Bob was a beginner compared to these guys.

[ironflange]

3. Well, if you're gonna lie you might as well make it a real whopper

[Sherman A1]

4. Well, the Defense Ministry spokesman did get the point of

making the Kremlin look bad correct. The most certainly did make themselves look like the horse's asses that they are.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

5. LOES:

Lie, Obfuscate, Explain, Spin
Don't they have the playbook there?

[ffr]

6. Sarah Palin explained this already. It's called Alternate Reality.

Anymore, I cannot tell where Russian talking points about "Fake News" and "so-called...." ends and Fox News and the QOP begins.

There seems to be no limit to how far they are willing to double down on a dystopian lies.

I will never take a Russian or a republican at their word ever again. How can you?

[LastDemocratInSC]

7. The Russians are winging it, making it up as they stumble along.

[IronLionZion]

8. Hospitals are not good military bases

Azov Battalion is pretty evil but I doubt they took over the maternity hospital and threw everyone out. That sounds like BS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion

[AntiFascist]

24. 10-20% neo-Nazis...I wonder what our percentage is? n/t

[IronLionZion]

26. Our Republican party probably has a higher percentage n/t

[Justice matters.]

29. We should ask Lying Lavrov to come denazify the GQP.

[orangecrush]

27. A Jewish President defended by neo nazis?

Fucking horseshit.

[IronLionZion]

31. They were like our militias and RW extremist groups except much more lethal

Ukraine decided to absorb such paramilitary groups into their national guard because Russia. One of the conditions was they have to get rid of their nazis but who is checking these days?

It would be like if the US were under threat of invasion so the US military incorporated 3 percenters and oathkeepers and so on to support our army and national guard. Hopefully that scenario would never happen here.

[rurallib]

9. will Fox regurgitate this story like this tonight?

[AZLD4Candidate]

30. Is the sky blue on a clear day?

[IggleDuer]

10. Is Azov their answer to Antifa?

N/T

[NewHendoLib]

11. fucking monsters.

[Ray Bruns]

12. I don't think this is true due to the fact the videos

of the pregnant women being carried out on stretchers.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

25. Not only that

but we SAW video of the hospital 10 days ago, when people were seeking help and shelter there.

Lavrov is putin's lap dog.

[PatSeg]

13. "This is not the first time when we see

pathetic cries about so-called atrocities committed by the Russian armed forces."

Yeah, there is a reason why you've been accused of atrocities before. Because it is true. The whole world knows what you are and you know that they know.

[SWBTATTReg]

14. Moscow Lavrov and others may not be aware that injured Russian soldiers could be

in that very same hospital having their injuries tended to, it's a real possibility I suspect. The excuses offered by Moscow Lavrov are pathetic.

[colorado_ufo]

21. They would say, "What's your point?"

They don't give a damn about their soldiers. The soldiers' bodies are rotting alongside the road. Their troops are cold, hungry, and are misdirected by incompetent leadership (thank God). To these Russian elite, troops are just as disposable as pixels in a video game. Meanwhile, their mothers are frantic, having not heard from their sons in days, fearing the worse. Sad, sad teenage conscripts, forced into committing atrocities.

Lavrov is despicable.

[sarisataka]

15. We deny our denial of the previous denial

We are now denying the action we denied ever happened in the first place so our denial was a misstatement and our denial of the denial is therefore obsolete and we never denied it anyway

[EndlessWire]

20. LOL! n/t

[paleotn]

16. Russian government lying? Surely NOT!

Since like the 13th century. Some things never change.

[Evolve Dammit]

17. Wasn't Lavrov one of the Russians in the Oval Office with Orange when no US reporters were allowed??

[The Unmitigated Gall]

19. Yep.

[Evolve Dammit]

22. Thought so. 45 was selling us out way back. Putin's puppy. God we are so far down this path. n/t

[The Unmitigated Gall]

23. Lavrov and Kislyak...

There might have been others.

Lavrov smiling like he just watched a lion eat a baby.

[myohmy2]

18. "...staged to make the Kremlin look bad. "

...nothing has to be staged to make the Kremlin look bad...

...the Kremlin does that well enough on their own...

...isn't it interesting how trump, putin's gang and many pukes all sound alike?

...very interesting...

[rpannier]

28. "Our delegation presented facts..."

Must be those "alternative facts" that Kelly Conway told us about

[11 Bravo]

32. "They had it coming." "No, wait, we didn't even do it!"

Well, I'm sold.