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Top officials at Ukroboronprom, Ukraine's state-owned defense conglomerate, violated the law by allowing weapons depots to be located in the Kyiv suburb of Vyshneve, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on July 11.

The announcement comes after Zelensky told journalists on July 9 that a criminal investigation had been launched into the massive explosions in Vyshneve during a recent Russian missile attack and that dismissals at Ukroboronprom would follow.

Vyshneve, a small town on the western outskirts of Kyiv, endured a night of terror on July 6 when it came under Russian drone and missile fire during a mass attack on the capital. An ammunition warehouse was hit, triggering secondary explosions. Seven people in Vyshneve were killed, while 29 others suffered injuries.

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[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

This is the kind of thing entities like Hamas need to learn to crack down on. Its a lot harder to say "oops we missed your valid military target and hit a school instead" if the valid military target is a decent distance from civilian infrastructure. Even Iran is pretty bad at that.

[–] Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

What a stupid take where you are not only fully consuming and regurgitating Israeli talking points but also creating false equivalencies.

[–] holy_scroller@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It's literally Hamas' playbook. Build worlds largest bomb shelter under civilian targets and never let a single civilian into it. It's quite sick.

Israel, Netanyahu, and especially the settlers have committed gobs of war crimes, but it is just plain ignorance to not understand this is what Hamas wants. There power is derived from maximizing civilian casualties. It's all fucked up.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago)

Way to both sides the "conflict" when one side is succeeding in a genocide. Judging what a population does in their struggle for existence is missing the forest for the trees.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone -5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Damn that's crazy, so Russia wasn't bombing civilians in Kiev?

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

They have been bombing civilians from the start of the war and ramping up those attacks as part of a terrorisation and demoralisation campaign. They are also bombing legit military targets. These things are not mutually exclusive.

Also: Kyiv*

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone -4 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

As a Ukrainian I'm happy to spell Kiev the traditional English way

[–] DillDough@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago

A Ukrainian who almost exclusively posts about Australia?

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

It sounds like they missed some civilians and accidentally hit an unfortunately-located legitimate military target instead.