Russia demonstratively targeting rescuers – and bragging about it

Russia demonstratively targeting rescuers – and bragging about it

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The Russian army openly posted a video showing drone operators deliberately targeting Ukrainian a civilian emergency response crew.

The State Emergency Service reported this on Facebook, Ukrinform saw.

“Russia is not even ashamed — they openly upload a video of their drones deliberately aiming at rescuers. At those who are not combatants, those who don’t wield weapons, those who save lives after another strike. This is not just terror — this is demonstratively inhumane behavior,” the agency noted.

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The Emergency Service emphasized that targeting those who are pulling survivors from under the rubble means being at war with life as such.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, the Russian military launched double-tap drone attacks on rescuers in Kharkiv and Kherson as the latter scrambled to initial strike sites.

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