Russians intentionally planted mines and booby traps to kill or maim civilians.

[Crunchy Frog]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/13/world/ukraine-russia-war-news#russia-land-mines-ukraine

Residents and authorities say that departing Russian soldiers have laced large swaths of the country with buried land mines and jury-rigged bombs — some hidden as booby traps inside homes. The explosives now must be found and neutralized before residents can resume a semblance of normal life.

Some of the explosives have been attached to washing machines, doorways, car windows, and other places where they can kill or injure civilians returning to their homes, according to residents and Ukrainian officials. Some were even hidden under hospital stretchers and corpses.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine this week called his country “one of the most contaminated by mines in the world,” and said that authorities were working to clear thousands in the areas from which Russian armies had retreated in recent weeks. He accused Russian soldiers of leaving the explosives in their wake “to kill or maim as many of our people as possible.”

He said that the tactic was a war crime and that Russian soldiers must have been acting on instructions from top officials, adding: “Without the appropriate orders, they would not have done it.”

The Russian military appears to be nothing more than a glorified terrorist organization.

[mucifer]

1. That's what genocide is. they will kill everyone who is Ukrainian

[maxsolomon]

2. much of their invasion has been in ethnically Russian areas.

Donbas, the SE.

it's a very odd strategy - kill and terrorize the population you're purporting to rescue.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. From the Vietnam era "We burned the village to save it." . . . . nt

[dalton99a]

3. Killing civilians is the only proven competence of the Russian military

[Crunchy Frog]

6. They're pretty good at raping, looting, and torturing too.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Genius strategy acc to Trump.