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You support terrorists that kill children.
originally posted by: mysterioustranger
a reply to: TheLieWeLive
Don't use the mobile version. Click DESKTOP...even on mobile.
Set your phones browser to desktop instead of mobile in the browser settings.
originally posted by: TheLieWeLive
a reply to: RickyD
That’s on a PC, how does somebody do that on ATS from a phone? I’ve never figured out how to YouTube from the ATS mobile version.
originally posted by: Kurokage
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: MisguidedAngel
War is hell MisguidedAngel, kids die on both sides down to the very nature of the beast in question same as everybody else that happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time during such conflicts.
I agree with you and if Mad Vlad had kept his ego, USSR fantasies and troops in check there wouldn't be any wrong places for people to die at in the Ukraine.
originally posted by: Kurokage
a reply to: Grimpachi
You seem to support Mad Vlads troops invading a soverign nation and laying waste to swathes of homes and buildings in support of a supposed liberation of Donbas, what about the Uyghur people of China, is Mad Vlad going to go and save them with his new found humanity?
You also seemed to ignore Kenzo's post about Mad Vlad bombing the people of Kharkiv Oblast.
The people of Ukraine are fighting against a massive INVADING force, don't you think things are going to get desperate as the Ukraianian people fight for their freedom?
originally posted by: Grimpachi
a reply to: Kurokage
You are trying to justify terrorism, the intentional targeting of civilians and civilian centers.
You support terrorists.
originally posted by: Grimpachi
a reply to: Kurokage
Things like this shelling wouldn't have happened if Mad Vlad had keep his troops in his own country,
This has been going on for 8 years.
Russia invaded because Ukraine refused to stop shelling Donbas.
Feb 5, 2022
"We are given so much weaponry not because as some say : west is helping us"
"Because we perform the tasks of the West"
"because we have fun, we have fun killing and we have fun fighting"
"We are the flagmen here, Because we have started a war that has not been seen for 60 years"
Calling him mad vlad makes you sound like a child......
Not everyone believes the wests propaganda hook line a nd sinker like you do.
MALAYA ROHAN, Ukraine — The village of Malaya Rohan, east of Kharkiv, lies largely in ruins. Burned-out tanks are sandwiched between collapsed buildings. Hot tub-sized craters pock the roads. The school is shattered. Sergei Shapoval is one of the luckier residents. His house is still standing, though most of the windows are broken. A grenade went off inside and shrapnel ripped through his television.
He and his family fled to a bomb shelter, the basement of his aunt's house, in the first days of the fighting. Russian troops took over his house and camped in his living room. Photos: Russian forces were driven out of this village outside Kharkiv, Ukraine The Picture Show Photos: Russian forces were driven out of this village outside Kharkiv, Ukraine "Everything is ripped. Everything is destroyed," he says as he walks through the rubble in his hallway. "You can see the ceiling is burnt out." Russian forces took over the village soon after launching the large-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. Now, areas like this are finally being liberated as the Ukrainian military makes advances in the northeast. The battles have been going on since the invasion. A senior U.S. defense official said Monday that Ukrainians forces continue to gain ground around Kharkiv, pushing Russian forces to within two miles of the Russian border.
Shapoval, 49, says he spent half his life working hard — maybe too hard — to build this house. Now he'll have to work even harder to repair it. "You can see the bullet holes here," he says, pointing to puncture marks in a wall.
Shapoval ended up living for weeks in the basement of his aunt's house. Soon after the invasion, the power went out. Shapoval and his family lived without lights or heat, he says, cooking potatoes over an open fire and eating canned vegetables they found in nearby cellars. Larisa Skorkina, helping to organize humanitarian aid distribution, says the entire village needs to be rebuilt. In the short term, the most pressing needs are reconnecting electricity, gas and water lines.
Many residents also need food. Over the weekend, volunteers brought in buckets of hot soup and tubs of red cabbage salad for dozens of residents who'd remained throughout the occupation or recently returned. And there are shortages of matches and powdered laundry soap. The matches have run out because so many people are still cooking over open fires, and they need more laundry detergent as they try to clean up. "Pretty much every building got some level of destruction," says Skorkina, who also spent most of the Russian occupation in a basement. "When our forces started to liberate the village, there was heavy bombs and heavy shelling," she says. "It was really bad. The walls, the ceiling, even the earth, the soil, was trembling because they were bombarding it so hard."
The invasion has fundamentally changed people's attitudes toward Russia Shapoval never thought the Russians would actually attack Ukraine. His part of the country is heavily Russian speaking. Downtown Kharkiv is just 30 miles from the Russian border. People used to go shopping in Russia. "They were like animals or beasts," he says of some of the invading Russian troops. They shot at people who tried to flee. They rammed over front gates with their vehicles rather than opening them. He says one soldier raped a young girl. NPR has not verified these allegations.
But for Shapoval, the occupation fundamentally changed his vision of Russia. "I have a family in Russia right now and my whole ... life, I was speaking Russian," he says. "Now I feel disgust to speak Russian. I don't want to speak the language anymore." In the days after the invasion, sitting in his aunt's cold, dark basement, Shapoval says he was struck by how different Ukraine is from Russia. "It was only at that stage that I realized that we'd lived in a European village," he says. "We had European roots. We had European TVs. We had the European community here. Now we have simply nothing."
You keep ignoring the fact that Ukraine has been shelling civilian districts and civilians for 8 years prior to the invasion.