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Ukrainian forces that have occupied part of Kursk Region have committed atrocities against civilians while using them as human shields, the commander of the Akhmat Special Forces from Russia’s Chechen Republic has claimed.

In a post on Telegram on Monday, Apty Alaudinov recounted an episode in the border town of Sudzha, where he said Ukrainian troops had entered a residential house with children inside.

“In this building, they settled down on the ground floor… and chased children and teachers upstairs to use them as a shield,” he said, adding that this practice is widespread. He claimed that first-person footage filmed by the Ukrainians had ended up in Russian hands, and showed the brutality of Kiev’s forces.

“I received a huge number of photos in which I saw civilians who were simply shot at point-blank [range], in the head and from the back. All these civilians, unfortunately, died,” he said, expressing his condolences and vowing revenge.

As fighting continues on the border, videos have surfaced on social media showing Ukrainian troops grabbing people off the street, blindfolding them, and pushing them into trucks.

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    4 months ago

    I thought that after experiences of Curtis LeMay command they might finally learn something about military terror campaigns but apparently not. Seems they believed their own media myths while ignoring legit analysis of their own military (just as LeMay did).

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      they might finally learn something about military terror campaigns

      They learned they can get away with them

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        4 months ago

        Yeah they have only two points: mass usage of expensive weapons and mass loss of civilian life, both very appealing to US military and oligarchy.