The continued shelling of civilians by Ukrainian forces is ethnic cleansing. [View all]

[another_liberal]

If what the Kiev government is now doing to its independence-minded ethnic Russian people is not ethnic cleansing it is so similar to that war crime as to be indistinguishable in its methods and its impact on the targeted population:

Thursday, July 10

10:38 GMT:

Three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and 27 wounded in clashes with the self-defense forces in the east of the country in the past 24 hours, the military said on Thursday. “The situation in the region remains tense,” according to the press-center of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. There have also been cases of road mining, both of highways and dirt roads, which the Kiev forces use.

06:33 GMT:

Fighting has been reported in eastern Ukraine near the ‘Donetsk’ checkpoint in Rostov Region, southwestern Russia, the press service of the Russian Southern Customs Service reported. The customs officers have been evacuated.

04:31 GMT:

Sanctions against Russia are stupid, believes Marine Le Pen, the president of the French far-right National Front.

“These sanctions are stupid, and have contributed to adding fuel to the fire, created a hostile environment against Russia,” said the French politician at a press conference. Le Pen believes that Russia is one of those countries which “preserves Ukraine's sovereignty and avoids the degradation of this situation to a civil war. The best way to stop this is to put everyone around the table,” she said, adding that Western countries “should not treat Russia with contempt,” because Russia is “a big regional player.”

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Read more at: http://rt.com/news/eastern-ukraine-army-operation-680/