RFE/RL Journalist Dies In Russian Missile Strikes On Kyiv
www.rferl.org
RFE/RL journalist Vira Hyrych has died in Kyiv after a Russian air strike hit the residential building where she lived in the Ukrainian capital.

A russian missile has apparently hit a residential building in Kiev, killing a ukrainian “journalist” working for the ukrainian language edition of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Radio Svoboda). Remember, RFE/RL is a CIA propaganda arm used to spread anticommunist propaganda. Anyone working for it is a propagandist and a proffessional liar, not a journalist. RIP BOZO Rest in piss you wont be missed. One less liar spreading russophobia and sinophobia 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

  • lxvi@lemmygrad.ml
    37·
    3 years ago

    Yes, Russia isn’t the USSR, but they’re killing all the things that I hate and making America and NATO out to be fools. Growing up in the height of Iraq, watching Libya hopelessly, I can’t help but feel vicariously victorious over stories like this.

  • peeonyou
    291·
    3 years ago

    I will never understand the term war crimes. War itself is criminal, so its just varying degrees of barbarity.

    • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
      16·
      3 years ago

      I would argue that there are things that should be classified as criminal, even for a criminal endeavour like war - just look at things imperial Japan did in China, for example.

      That said, people seem to not know (and not want to know) actual definitions for the term and just throw it out at whatever the “bad guys” are doing. Or what they think they are doing, like that story about how “Russian spies are marking residential buildings for missile strikes”. Or the one about “Russian tank purposefully running over a car”. All those stories dilute the meaning of the term and cheapen the suffering.

  • DyesBratee
    10·
    3 years ago

    Is this okay? She was unarmed and in a residential building(According to RFE). If yes: Are propagandists(in this case in the enemy territory) classified as non-civil in war(And no, I’m not asking for spies)? If not: Is this justified in any way or is it a war crime(And yes I’m asking according to this source. If there is an another one that says otherwise or disproves this one than well…)?

    • SaddamHussein24@lemmygrad.mlOP
      21·
      3 years ago

      Idk, this just came out and Russia has denied they fired that missile, saying they hit a weapons factory, not a residential building. Either they fired it and it missed the target hitting there or Ukraine fired it for some reason or Russia fired it and the journalist was at the weapons factory and RFE lied. Either way i dont care, she deserved it. Instead of an innocent ukrainian dying we got a shameless bastard who slanders and lies for money to manufacture consent for wars that kill millions. Also Radio Svoboda (ukrainian edition of RFE/RL where she worked) regularly spreads nazi propaganda, like that Stepan Bandera wasnt a nazi but “just a ukrainian nationalist” and that he was good, which makes it even worse. She didnt need to work there, she could have stayed at the ukrainian TV channel where she worked earlier, which probably lies a lot but at least isnt funded by the fucking CIA. Instead, she showed she had no principles as long as there is good money. Sucks her family lost her but nazis have families too, doesnt mean we shouldnt kill them. Im not crying for her.

      But answering your question if what RFE says is true then yes its a war crime undoubtedly.

    • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
      112·
      3 years ago

      No. It’s a life lost and it is sad. She could be a mom, a wife, sister etc. People will grow up without her. No one should live through that.

      It is sad her job was to spread mainly lies with the intent of propaganda to harm countries trying to do better than capitalism. It’s sad she died with this as her legacy.