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Originally Posted by activeStick
Russia obviously holds the vast majority of the blame given they are the aggressors and the ones invading and launching strikes, but I am assuming the rules of war don't allow for armed forces to hide out in civilian places due to the obvious risks to the innocent. Similar to when people talk about Hezbollah, hiding both insurgents and remote missiles in schools.
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If that truly did happen and the UA armed forces are at fault, well then shame on them for doing this and they deserve to be punished. Obviously you can't go around doing that.
Having said that, this is happening in pretty much ALL occupied territory under Russian control by the Russians, including the village my in-laws are trapped in. They were told to their faces that they were being held in their village to be used as human shields, since it discourages the UA forces from all-out attacking those Russian positions.
So while it's discouraging to know some UA forces might have done this, it's very strange how the UN report seems to have been steered towards this investigation in the first place. I'd like to see the report(s) on the Russians doing the exact same thing but on a significantly much larger scale, very clearly with orders from above.