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So, Russia has troops inside the power plant, and they are apparently holding workers at gunpoint so they keep producing electricity. Ukraine, as expected, has decided not to attack those Russian troops and endanger the rest of us in the world, while stupid Russians are shelling their own positions and halting the production that they themselves are attempting to keep going. They are probably not stopping even when the prospect of a nuclear catastrophe is pushing international forces to act, as Mr Zelenskyy has many times requested, probably eventually expelling Russian forces from the area. As stupid as they are, they don't realize that the attacks they are performing only benefit the military interests of Ukraine, and not their own... Thankfully, that Chinese official has stated that "all parties [...] exercise maximum restraint”, and by "all parties" we should of course understand they're referring specifically to Russia, just like the article states in its title, as they are clearly the ones performing the attacks.
Edit: /s, for the sake of fuck
Russia should withdraw its military from the power plant. Using it as cover for their soldiers and ammunition is cowardly and a huge safety risk for the civilian population.
As for the comments on here talking about western MSM bias - give me a break. There is one aggressor here, a crazy russian authoritarian regime and army attacking a democratic country under some very ridiculous pretenses. Not to mention the disgusting way they have targeted the civilians.
Russia is not in a position where it can do that. If Russia pulls out of it Ukraine will move into it and do exactly that. The plant will become a base that can not be attacked. It's an unrealistic position. Given that Ukraine positions all of its military underneath and around civilian buildings while using schools and hospitals as bases there's really no question that they would also do it with the plant.
Not really true on the whole. There have probably been some instances of this but it's extremely obvious that Russia has been light-handed in this war compared to the American invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan or what happened to Libya. It's just disingenuous to claim.
Yeah it's not as bad as Iraq yet, but it is senseless and needs to stop. Iraq is a pretty low bar with >100k civilians dead. And they are targeting civilians' hitting mall, train stations, and even normal workplaces. All of these hundreds of km from the front. Im not even talking about the crap they do at the front or in occupied areas.
Yeah but the point is like, when the west has invaded anything they've gone in FULL POWER. They wipe everything out, the destroy all power infrastructure, they shut down the ability of entire cities to function, they utterly and totally cripple the opponent regardless of civilians.
Russia on the other hand has not done that remotely at all. Kyiv has a functioning economy, so does the rest of Ukraine not currently directly on the front line of artillery fire. They have occupied the power plant but they're running it and continuing to supply western Ukraine (controlled by the Ukrainian gov still) with electricity.
Obviously this might change in the future (plenty of room for them to escalate if they want to) but anyone making these claims about civilian targeting has either no idea how the west conducts itself when it does an invasion or is genuinely lying for alternative agendas. Yes it can always be better, but they're 100% being gentle.
I wonder whether these people have seen a western war. Whether they truly believe what they're saying or not. If they truly believe what they are saying then the next invasion the west conducts is going to look like a horror show 100x worse to them. But I'm pretty sure many are saying this kind of thing knowing full well it's not the truth.
Yes and we have video of ukrainian military in a lot of them. It's impossible to verify particularly well what strikes occurred for what reasons though at this point in time, we simply do not know what was being stored in these locations that Russia believed was worth striking. The argument that they were just yolo blasting a civilian location for absolutely no reason with a missile costing 60million dollars needs a bit of critique though.