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we must take sides – #ukraine

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe

Elie Wiesel #Ukraine

Belgrade Denies Serbian ‘Militants’ are Fighting for Russia in Ukraine

The Ukrainian Army’s claim that Serbian ‘militants’ are being recruited to supplement Russian ‘occupation’ forces in Ukraine has drawn an angry riposte from the Serbian Defence Ministry. Serbia’s Defence Ministry on Sunday condemned Ukraine’s “dangerous misinformation” that Serbian fighters are being recruited to supplement Russian forces in Ukraine, and said: “We demand that it be withdrawn immediately.” “The participation of Serbian citizens in armed conflicts abroad is a serious crime punishable by several years in prison,” Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said in a press release. (,..) Ukraine’s General Staff said in operational information on Sunday that, “for the purpose of the urgent replenishment of the losses of the occupation troops”, Russia was bringing in fighters from the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region in the Caucasus, and also that “a large number of militants from other countries are involved (Syria, Serbia)”. It did not respond BIRN’s request for additional information about Serbian fighters. There is a track record of Serbian fighters being present in warzones in Ukraine since the outbreak of the conflict in 2014. Social media posts from the Ukrainian battlefields later enabled prosecutors to prove the illegal military action of fighhters in Ukraine.

via balkan insight: Belgrade Denies Serbian ‘Militants’ are Fighting for Russia in Ukraine

Russian-Made Drone Crashes in Romania Near Ukraine Border

The Bucharest authorities said that an unarmed UAV surveillance drone of a type used by Russian forces in Ukraine crashed in northern Romania. A Soviet-produced reconnaissance UAV crashed in Bistrita county in northern Romania, 100 kilometres from the border with Ukraine. Romanian Defence Minister Vasile Dincu said on Monday evening that the drone that crashed near a village in Bistrita County in northern Romania was a reconnaissance UAV that did not have any explosives on board. “It’s not a very big drone. It’s a drone toy, a metre and a bit wide. It is a search-information drone and did not carry explosives,” Dincu said. He said that it fell in the village of Rachitele on Sunday and was found by children. The Russian-made drone, Orlan-10, gathers information and identifies targets. It has been used by Russian forces in the conflict in eastern Ukraine since 2014 and in the war in Syria. Dincu said he has spoken with Ukrainian officials about the drone. Romania is trying to identify where was launched as the model only has medium-range flying capability and could only have come from Ukraine’s territory.

via balkan insight: Russian-Made Drone Crashes in Romania Near Ukraine Border

‘Why? Why? Why?’ Ukraine’s Mariupol descends into despair

The bodies of the children all lie here, dumped into this narrow trench hastily dug into the frozen earth of Mariupol to the constant drumbeat of shelling. There’s 18-month-old Kirill, whose shrapnel wound to the head proved too much for his little toddler’s body. There’s 16-year-old Iliya, whose legs were blown up in an explosion during a soccer game at a school field. There’s the girl no older than 6 who wore the pajamas with cartoon unicorns, among the first of Mariupol’s children to die from a Russian shell. They are stacked together with dozens of others in this mass grave on the outskirts of the city. A man covered in a bright blue tarp, weighed down by stones at the crumbling curb. A woman wrapped in a red and gold bedsheet, her legs neatly bound at the ankles with a scrap of white fabric. Workers toss the bodies in as fast as they can, because the less time they spend in the open, the better their own chances of survival. “The only thing (I want) is for this to be finished,” raged worker Volodymyr Bykovskyi, pulling crinkling black body bags from a truck. “Damn them all, those people who started this!”

via ap: ‘Why? Why? Why?’ Ukraine’s Mariupol descends into despair