This is Russia’s method of war … – 24 hours

Source: CNN

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CNN in the United States national Peter Bergen, a security analyst, commented on Russia’s atrocities in the Ukrainian city of Bucha.

Analyst said that, The Bucha crimes of the Russian troops are spitting, but not surprising: “Imagine how Russia has waged wars in Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Syria in recent decades. In those wars Russia to the civilian population, to the civilians snowcarried out massacres.

In the last century, the Soviet Union fought a nine-year war in Afghanistan. Human Rights Watch reportina according to, more than a million Afghans were killed in those years. Most of them weather of attacks victimIt happened. Tens of thousands of missing people were massacred victim It has become clear that he is gone. “

Peter Bergen stressed that, Russia’s atrocities continued for the next decade, but at the same time in the country’s own territory: “According to the calculations of Russian human rights experts according toDuring the 1994 Chechen war, about 25,000 civilians were killed in just two months in the capital, Grozny.

According to Human Rights Watch according toSince the end of December 1999 2000th January During the second war in Chechnya by mid-January, Russian troops killed at least 38 civilians in the city of Grozny. Of the organization reportin 20On February 5, 00, the Russian military reportedly massacred at least 16 civilians.

According to the report of the International Federation for Human Rights, 20In 00, the Russians carried out mass executions and massacres in Chechnya, tortured people not involved in military operations, and attacked civilians.

Recalling that during the two wars in Chechnya with an interval of several years, the Russians destroyed the city of Grozny, which once had a population of more than 400 thousand people.UN It was not in vain that he called Grozny “the most ruined city on Earth.”

According to the Human Rights Monitoring Group according toLowered by the Russian army during the civil war in Syria in recent years weather As a result of the strikes, about 8,700 civilians were killed. It is known that, “Without Russian intervention, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad would have lost the civil war in 2015.”

Peter Bergen noted that, These atrocities were not committed only by Russian legal forces: “Last year Europe Union Russia army and an unofficial mercenary group with close ties to the government, the Wagner Group snowimposed sanctions.

Europe The union stated that, The reason for these sanctions is the Wagner group in Libya and Syria and Terrible human rights abuses in the Central African Republic, including extrajudicial executions and massacres. At present, the Wagner group 10There are reports that 00 members have already been deployed in Ukraine.

Peter Bergen stressed that, Russia The war has always plagued the civilian population, and this is the Russian method of warfare. She according to also analytical Russia Ukraine that the atrocities he committed on his land were not limited to the city of Bucha and in the coming weeks free He said he expected similar scenes in other settlements.

Russia, which completely occupied the Crimean peninsula of Ukraine in 2014 and partially occupied the Donbas region, entered the country on February 21, 2022. snowhas launched a new aggression, and since February 24 has been waging a total war there.

Ukraine of the people and Faced with strong resistance from the army, Russian troops from some areas, including the capital, in late March Kyiv had to retreat around. Free Mass graves were discovered in the settlements, especially in the town of Bucha, where Russians were found to have killed peaceful Ukrainians.