The UN human rights office reports the death toll has been soaring in eastern Ukraine over the past two weeks, nearly doubling from 1,129 to 2,080, with at least 4,953 others wounded.
The office termed the tolls “very conservative estimates,” put suggest a massive increase in slain easterners as the Ukrainian military has pushed its offensive into more densely populated rebel territory.
Russia has been warning of a soaring humanitarian crisis in East Ukraine, which has displaced somewhere around 1,000,000 civilians, many of them fleeing into neighboring Russia.
The Red Cross has agreed to a deal with Russia to bring large amounts of humanitarian aid into the region, though Ukraine continues to issue new demands on the convoy, and it remains to be seen if it will actually be delivered.
And Putin is the bad guy and deserves sanctions. Anyone going to hold the EU, and USG accountable for looking the other what while Poroshenko kills all ethnic Russians?
Remember the phonecall and arch criminal Tymoshenko.
Kill 8,000,000 Ukrainian Russians in the east and will someone nuke Russia and reduce it to dust?
Seems we didn't take her words seriously.
This is ethnic cleansing if not genocide.
But as with Serbia – you can ethnically cleanse 700,000 Serbs from their homes and sell their body parts but touch the murderous scum supported by NATO and the MSM goes ballistic.
You can murder thousands of civilians in Ukraine, murder decent journalists trying to bring it to the world's attention and the MSM media yawns and looks the other way.
The western media is a disgrace now purely a propaganda service and the public who sit by and watch whats going on will one day live to regret their indifference.
If so many of the displaced persons have fled into Russia, one wonders why Putin wants to send a convoy of vehicles of unidentifiable origin into Ukraine rather than distributing the aid to the people already in Russia. And also, why waste several days sending this travelling circus southward from Moscow rather than just flying the aid in, as is usually done in such circumstances. Even the rickety Russian air force isn't so rickety that it cannot muster even a few elderly Soviet-era transport planes to fly the aid south!
Well, let's see:
280 ZiL-131 military cargo trucks. The ZiL-131 has a cargo capacity of about five tons. So we're talking 1,400 tons of cargo.
The AN-124 military airlift cargo aircraft carries a max payload of 165 tons, so a minimum of nine trips into a combat zone where a passenger aircraft has recently been shot down, where the local authorities do not appear to control any major airports, and where an invading military is saying it won't allow the aid in.
Yeah, I can't imagine why they'd send some cheap trucks, along protected routes which can be observed by neutrals, rather than sending some expensive airplanes into a zone where airplanes get shot down with almost know way of knowing who did the shooting or why. They must be stupid or something.
> Even the rickety Russian air force isn't so rickety that it cannot muster even a few elderly Soviet-era transport planes to fly the aid south!
You seem to be ripe to sign up, son!
Willy Wonka will certainly accept you in his troops.