Russland vs. Ukraine

[Schneemann]

Hinweis darauf, dass die Russen bei ihrem Abzug nicht nur die Taktik der verbrannten Erde anwenden, sondern dass sie auch zahlreiche andere Kriegsverbrechen begangen haben. In der 25.000-Einwohner-Stadt Bucha, etwa 30 Kilometer nordwestlich der Hauptstadt Kiew, sollen nach der Rückeroberung über 200 Leichen gefunden worden sein...

‘They were all shot’: Russia accused of war crimes as Bucha reveals horror of invasion

Ukrainian forces liberating the town near Kyiv find streets littered with corpses of civilians and burned-out Russian tanks. [...] As Ukrainian armoured columns rolled into Bucha, a town north-west of the capital, they found streets blocked by burned-out Russian tanks and military vehicles, and strewn with the bodies of civilians whom locals said had been killed by the invading forces without provocation. [...]

Reporters from Agence France-Presse saw at least 20 bodies, all in civilian clothing, strewn across a single street in Bucha, and the body of a missing Ukrainian photographer, Maksim Levin, was discovered in a nearby village. [...]

One had his hands tied behind his back with a white cloth, and his Ukrainian passport left open beside his corpse, said journalists who accessed the ravaged town. “All these people were shot,” Bucha’s mayor Anatoly Fedoruk told AFP, adding that 280 other bodies had been buried in mass graves in the town. “These are the consequences of Russian occupation.” Ukrainian soldiers in Bucha, who were welcomed warmly by residents of the town, attached cables to the bodies and pulled them off the street for fear they may be booby-trapped.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/a...f-invasion

Minengefahr vor den Küsten: Durchaus realistisch, bereits vor einigen Tagen haben rumänische Marineeinheiten Treibminen im Schwarzen Meer unschädlich gemacht (u. a. hier: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/rom...022-03-28/). Ob das nun nur alleine russische Minen sind, sei mal dahingestellt, auch die Ukrainer haben Defensivsperren vor bspw. Odessa geworfen - schon vor Wochen...

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Britischer Geheimdienst warnt vor Seeminen im Schwarzen Meer

Der britische Geheimdienst berichtet, ein Angriff russischer Truppen über See sei unwahrscheinlich. Die russischen Seestreitkräfte würden sich bei einer Landung einem hohem Risiko aussetzen, da die ukrainische Armee genügend Zeit zur Vorbereitung gehabt habe. Der Geheimdienst warnt vor Minen im Schwarze Meer und im Asowschen Meer. Diese seien wahrscheinlich russischen Ursprungs.

https://www.n-tv.de/politik/08-03-Britis...43824.html

Dazu auch:

Is There A Serious Sea Mine Threat In The Black Sea?

The threat of sea mines reportedly first appeared after an Estonian general cargo ship sank after colliding with a sea mine off the coast of Odessa. Four crew members are still missing after the explosion. [...]

Two weeks after this incident, on March 18, the Russian coastal station Novorossisiyk issued a disturbing NAVTEX message (Navigational telex – an international service providing navigational and meteorological warnings and forecasts) stating that mines anchored by Ukrainian naval forces near the port of Odesa had loosened their chains due to stormy weather. The Novorossisiyk station claimed that about 420 sea mines were floating on the water and accused Ukraine of violating the provisions of the 1907 Hague Convention. [...]

Laying hundreds of sea mines takes a long time because it’s a delicate activity, and Ukrainian ships cannot lay mines while the Russian fleet monitors the area 24 hours a day. Other methods of laying mines are aircraft or submarines, but even these are impossible as Ukraine doesn’t have these capabilities. Perhaps Ukraine laid a few mine lines quickly and carelessly with a tug or other small ship, but laying 420 mines seems almost impossible. [...]

At 9:30 a.m. local time on March 26, a MILCO (mine-like contact) was detected by a Turkish fishing vessel in the anchorage area near the entrance to the Strait of Istanbul, and the MILCO’s position was reported to the Turkish Coast Guard. Coast Guard vessels proceeded to the area and established a security zone to prevent unwanted entry. Subsequently, a Turkish Navy-affiliated underwater defence team (UDT) secured the MILCO on shore and began an investigation.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/202...black-sea/

Zu den russischen Versuchen, Rekrutierungen in Syrien vorzunehmen:

In Syria, Russia leads effort to recruit fighters for Ukraine

Analysts say Moscow has been recruiting Syrian fighters through its mercenary network and local groups.

Beirut, Lebanon – Even after a decade of civil war, Syrians have been trying to find a way out of the country to fight in another. Moscow through the mercenary company the Wagner Group and supported Syrian fighter groups have been recruiting men to fight alongside Russian troops in Ukraine. Thousands across the war-torn country have reportedly expressed an interest in signing up. [...]

“Moscow is taking the lead with recruitment,” Omar Abu Layla, a Syrian activist based in Europe who runs Syrian media and monitoring group Deir EzZor 24, told Al Jazeera. “If you see it as a hierarchal structure, you have Russia at the top, then the Wagner Group, then the National Defence Forces,” he explained, the latter being a network of private pro-government fighter groups. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced in March that he will approve up to 16,000 fighters from the Middle East to deploy in Ukraine’s Donbas region to support Russian-backed rebel groups. [...]

Russian defence-ministry-owned Zvezda TV broadcast a video of Syrian men in military garb, waving Syrian and Russian flags, pledging to fight alongside Russian forces in Ukraine. [...] A fighter in Homs with the recently disbanded Russia-backed group Desert Hawks Brigade said its leader, Mohamad Jaber, has been contacting former fighters to regroup and support Russia’s war in Ukraine. He accepted Jaber’s request. The Desert Hawks was considered one of Syria’s two most significant and ruthless fighter branches in the military. It has taken part in key offensives in Aleppo, Palmyra, Lattakia, and Deraa to keep President Bashar al-Assad in power. [...]

One recruiter claimed in a post that volunteers deployed to Syria will be paid a monthly salary of 1,500 euros (US$1,657), have all their personal expenses covered, and will receive a 50,000 euro ($55,235) lump sum at their end of service. “I want to sign up, please somebody help me,” one middle-aged man said in the comment section. However, a young man on the page, dressed in military garb in his photo, said this recruiter was a fraud. [...] Some analysts are sceptical about the recruitment process and whether Russia will deploy armed Syrians in Ukraine anytime soon. [...] No Syrian fighters have reached Ukraine yet. [...] That said, not all Syrians are interested in fighting a new war, after more than a decade of conflict in their own country that has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions. Some say despite Russia’s crucial military support to the Syrian government, Ukraine is not a war for them to fight.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/1/...or-ukraine

Es scheint wohl also so, als wenn bislang die Rekrutierungsbemühungen nicht sonderlich erfolgreich waren und zudem teils unter fadenscheinigen Versprechen, ja beinahe Bestechungsversuchen, erfolgen. Und auch wenn bislang wohl keine Syrer in der Ukraine aufgetaucht sind, so frage ich mich, wie es denn überhaupt im russischen Selbstverständnis funktionieren sollte - man definiert sich ja auch als christliches Bollwerk gegen z. B. die radikalen Islamisten im Kaukasus -, wenn man nun Muslime für sich und gegen die christlichen Ukrainer kämpfen lassen würde...

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