• Gork@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    The long range missiles the West are providing are precision strike weapons so the attacks themselves can minimize civilian casualties.

    Unlike the Russians, Ukraine won’t use them to target maternity wards or apartment complexes. But an electrical substation that distributes power to the Kremlin? Why not.

    • ☭ SaltyIceteaMaker ☭@iusearchlinux.fyi
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      10 months ago

      Destroying infrastructure will always lead to civilian deaths unless it is a pure military installation. As soon as you destroy just one wrong substation (because your Intel was wrong or whatever) you are killing innocent civilians, even worse if a hospital was hooked up to that sub station

      Edit: had a typo: instead of pure i wrote lure

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        10 months ago

        Fair point. It just doesn’t seem fair for Ukraine to not be able to hit back while the Russians strike at will. There needs to be some consequences.