[HN Gopher] Russia War Crimes
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       Russia War Crimes
        
       Author : denysvitali
       Score  : 54 points
       Date   : 2022-04-09 19:17 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (war.ukraine.ua)
 (TXT) w3m dump (war.ukraine.ua)
        
       | sschueller wrote:
       | "This is the official website of Ukraine. The information is
       | verified by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine"
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       | "All proceeds received go directly to supporting the front-line
       | defence of Ukraine."
       | 
       | I am not going to dispute any of the war crimes committed or
       | currently being committed by Russia however I would be very
       | careful to take every word here as a fact when Ukraine for
       | obvious reasons is also running an information warfare.
       | 
       | War crimes will be investigated by the ICC and the facts will
       | then be determined.
       | 
       | This website is a fund raiser for the Ukraine military. If you
       | reside in a country like Switzerland you are not permitted to
       | donate to such causes. Give your money to the IRC or another
       | humanitarian charity.
        
         | yks wrote:
         | Please DO NOT DONATE to Red Cross! They spend money on
         | bureaucracy and photo ops of their leadership with Russian
         | officials and are all around very ineffective. If you cannot or
         | would not donate to the military, consider donating to the
         | numerous Ukrainian humanitarian aid organizations, one example:
         | Nova Ukraine [1]
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         | [1] https://novaukraine.org/
        
         | krzyk wrote:
         | The web page lists multiple ways of helping, either funding
         | their military, or humanitarian help, or e.g. hosting refugees.
        
         | MrBuddyCasino wrote:
         | I have never seen this level of information warfare in my life.
         | Both sides are pushing transparent lies and disinformation,
         | eagerly amplified by social media accounts and big newspapers
         | alike. I will never trust any history book ever again.
        
           | throw_m239339 wrote:
           | > I have never seen this level of information warfare in my
           | life. Both sides are pushing transparent lies and
           | disinformation, eagerly amplified by social media accounts
           | and big newspapers alike. I will never trust any history book
           | ever again.
           | 
           | Well, lucky you, you can go to Ukraine to check whether
           | corpses of children and women massacred by Russian armies in
           | this war of aggression are real. you don't have to trust a
           | book.
        
           | trinovantes wrote:
           | > I will never trust any history book ever again.
           | 
           | Congrats, propaganda has accomplished its primary objective.
           | Convincing the population is a secondary objective. Its true
           | goal is simply making the populace apathetic so that the
           | regime can carry on with whatever it wants.
        
           | nikolay wrote:
           | Considering how much a single Javelin costs, for example,
           | infowarfare is so much cheaper!
        
           | Sporktacular wrote:
           | Never? Any history book?
           | 
           | Do you mean not trusting every single aspect of a book? Or do
           | you mean trust without validating it?
           | 
           | Otherwise I don't understand how could anyone ever learn
           | about history that way.
        
       | cersa8 wrote:
       | As someone from Western Europe I've always considered myself
       | lucky to be living in a kind of golden age of technology,
       | prosperity and peace. The last months I realise this time may
       | well come to an end.
        
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