But #totallynotgenocide, right?
The competence of the International Criminal Court (
ICC) includes the prosecution of persons guilty of genocide. If there are facts, they should be presented there and carefully examined. Because in the same way you
can be told that Ukrainian troops are purposefully killing pro-Russian civilians.
Do the Western media talk about the shelling of cities by Ukrainian troops on civilians with the help of Western artillery, for example, which was yesterday in Donetsk?
I ask because usually such news is not shown in major European and American information resources. This in no way justifies any victims, but independent journalists should try to objectively cover events from different sides of the conflict.
To understand the subject matter, here is a
video (Violent content!), which is unlikely to be shown on TV channels in Europe or USA.
So far, instead of objective reporting, I have seen the lies of the
English Daily Mirror,
German tagesschau,
French TF1 that Russian troops are shelling Donetsk. Maybe someone doesn't know yet, that the army from Donetsk is now fighting together with Russian troops against the Ukrainian army. In particular, The Daily Mirror was so brazen that they published a photo of Donetsk (which they say is being shelled by the Russian army), and at the same time, in the photo itself from Donetsk, you can see a poster where it says: "We are the Russian Donbass". There was also a photo from Donetsk, which the Italian newspaper
La Stampa signed as "Così Kiev affronta l'assalto finale" ("Thus Kiev faces the final assault").
In Europe and the US, Russian central television is squeamishly called Putin’s propaganda, but the "Russian zombie TV" is light years behind the Western media in terms of brainwashing the population, and the editors of the Western media should be prosecuted for slander and inciting ethnic hatred.
The Ukrainian authorities lie that they are only targeting military infrastructure in Russian-controlled areas with artillery strikes. Europeans and Americans should know that women and children have been killed and injured for many days from weapons that are shipped to Ukraine from the West (Warning! Violent content!
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Caption on the photo:
"10-year-old Veronika Badina died during the shelling of Donetsk from French CAESAR howitzers.
The French government is helping Ukraine not to defend itself, but to kill."
On July 12, 2022, a correspondent of the Ukrainian TV channel
VTV Plus published a
video report on YouTube about a Ukrainian missile attack on Nova Kakhovka (Kherson region).
The text of her message, translated into English:
"A large number of destruction of urban infrastructure.
We see that they hit shops, markets, bus stations, churches, houses.
A very large number of destruction. Now it is known for sure about seven dead and more than seventy injured civilians.
All houses look so scary now, services are working, they get (people) from under the rubble, firefighters put out fires, the police work.
An operational headquarters has been created to provide assistance to the victims.
Now the decision of the temporary city administration has been made to pay
400 thousand rubles ($ 7000) to wounded and 2 million rubles ($ 35000) to families of the victims.
I would like to say that this is, of course, an unprecedentedly terrible story,
because Ukraine, like real terrorists, is simply bombing peaceful cities with American weapons."
@suchmoon, returning to the question you asked about a genocide. Perhaps you are not aware, but in Russia the third person in the state is a native of Ukraine,
Valentina Matvienko, however, just like
Vladimir Medinsky, an assistant to the Russian president. This does not really fit into the version that the Russians hate Ukrainians so much that they are ready to exterminate them as a nation. A few days ago, Putin
signed a decree on granting Russian citizenship to all residents of Ukraine in a simplified manner. Remind me of at least one such case in world history when the government of one country sought to destroy people of a certain nationality, but at the same time gave them passports.
Since you are trying to make a point here with "Germany", let me tell you a few details.
[...] Germany has become far too dependant from Russian Oil and especially Gas!
Germany can replace Russian Gas but Putin has lost a big market, where he can sell his Gas - probably forever or at least as long as his corrupt circle is in power.
Russia will take the most damage long-term as Germany and Europe are slowly replacing Russian Oil and Gas.
Russia will lose Europe / Germany as a place, where he can sell his fossil fuels.
Germany has a big industry for cars, for steel and for chemical products (
like BASF). Very energy intensive production.
These industries will not be any longer supplied by Russian fossil fuels but from fossil fuels from elsewhere.
Very bad for Putin but he won't tell you. 
Putin will never tell you when he has made a mistake because he would be so busy. And he won't tell you, that it was his plan all along to control Europe's Gas supply!
So let's make it similar to an investment: diversify!
Don't buy your whole Gas supply from ONE (corrupt) country.
So, please! When you mention Germany next time, please do proper research.
Putin TV is not a credible source.
The mere fact of living in a country doesn't make its resident a priori a recognized expert in the foreign economy and politics of this state.
Are you sure that you yourself didn't become an object of "Scholz TV" propaganda, regarding your expectations, which do not at all coincide with the Germany possibilities?
The
Bild experts do not share your bravado about the refusal of Russian gas. About replacing Russian gas - I don’t know what you are counting on, but German residents may soon start using
wood instead of gas, like a hundred years ago.
While you're trying to make fun of Putin (judging by the many emoticons), Russia is now making
more money from increased energy sales to China and India. As Aristotle
said: "Nature abhors a vacuum".
For comparison, for the whole of 2021, Germany, being the largest importer of Russian energy, bought gas and oil from Russia at a total price of
20 billion euros. Moreover, many Russian citizens urge for a fast shutdown of all of Europe from Russian gas in response to sanctions, as well as for numerous calls of Western officials to defeat Russia on the battlefield; for the supply of weapons, military instructors, intelligence data and other military assistance to Ukraine.
As for Lavrov's words, you may be surprised, but he still
claims that Russia didn't invade Ukraine.
You also mentioned ARD and ZDF TV channels, which "often presenting the Russian position". Maybe you are confusing the expression of a view with a regular quotation (such as "he said", "she claimed", etc.)? Well, in general, this is a regular thing in journalism, or do you want a total information boycott to operate in Germany without listening to the opinion of the other side? Speaking specifically about the ARD (Tagesschau) channel, it is not journalists who work there, but shameless propagandists who lied in June 2022 that Donetsk was shelled by Russian troops (see above).
