DeSantis’s disturbing service at Guantánamo included force feedings & the suspicious deaths of 3 detainees. DeSantis’s actions at the base is one of the most troubling chapters of his life-about which he has never publicly expressed any concern https://t.co/bflSi0Z9Jv
— Lesley Abravanel 🪩 (@lesleyabravanel) March 19, 2023
Category: War Crimes
What Digby said
How close did we come to nuclear war under Trump? As it turns out, very, very close.
Cultural genocide
Russians dragged bronze statues from parks, lifted books from a scientific library, boxed up the 200-year-old bones of Grigory Potemkin, and even stole a raccoon from the zoo, leaving behind a trail of vacant cages, empty pedestals and smashed glass. https://t.co/mqBhUOsYCO
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) January 15, 2023
Children of war
6-year-old Ilya’s parents were killed by Russian soldiers in Mariupol.
Maria and Volodymyr, a young refugee couple from Slovyansk, decided to adopt him.
The new family has been together for 6 weeks now.
Ilya promises that he will be a good son. He doesn’t want to be left again pic.twitter.com/tE8XCC9425
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 23, 2022
It’s all fake
CNN's Brianna Keilar names some of Ukraine's child victims and struggles through tears to explain how they died from Russian weapons. Watch it. https://t.co/3S4WI14XNb
— @TomSullivan@mstdn.social (@BloggersRUs) April 14, 2022
Looters
In the village school, the Russians had taken most of the computers, the projectors and other electronic equipment. An opened pair of scissors had been inserted into a plasma screen. What could not be stolen was instead destroyed.https://t.co/JfAfTfVw3E
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) April 11, 2022
Imagine
Ukrainian mothers are writing their family contacts on the bodies of their children in case they get killed and the child survives. And Europe is still discussing gas. pic.twitter.com/sK26wnBOWj
— Anastasiia Lapatina (@lapatina_) April 4, 2022
Criminal
Biden calls Putin a ‘war criminal,’ urges building evidence to put Russian president on trial after atrocities in Ukraine https://t.co/b4ynTS7Fr0
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 4, 2022
More war crimes
https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1510372750665433089
Some things never change
Rape has always happened in wars, but the Russian army treats it as normal:
Another horrific story. About a woman & her son Danya (6) in #Mariupol. Husband got “arrested” by #RussianArmy. She got raped for days. Danya was in the room. She didn’t survive. Danya stopped talking. Boy’s in a #Kyiv hospital now.#RussianWarCrimes #StandWithUkraine
— olexander scherba🇺🇦 (@olex_scherba) March 30, 2022
Reports coming out that Russians rape children.Maybe I’m naïve, never thought it’s a possibility. In an intercepted Russian call a case is described when 3 soldiers raped a 14 year old & her mom.A volunteer from Bucha describes cases of 13 & 12 y.o.girls whose parents were killed
— Olena Tregub (@OTregub) March 30, 2022