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

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        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.

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            My brother in christ, you accuse me of what you yourself are doing. One side lives in an open air prison and the other has built that prison, including many of the tunnels. When a slave murders someone in pursuit of their freedom it’s not a good thing, but it is not the fault of the slave. There’s your difference!

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        Oh my, full throated regurgitation of Israeli propaganda. I’m sure you think that a calendar in Arabic is a terrorist plot too… Tsk tsk

        For those who still don’t know how far Israel is willing to go with their lying: https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20231116-idf-claims-to-find-list-of-hamas-names-but-it-s-the-days-of-the-week-in-arabic

        A video posted directly by Israel’s Defence Forces claimed that it had found Hamas weapons and technology, as well as a “list of terrorist names” in Arabic, showing each agents’ rota guarding Israeli hostages under the Al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital in Gaza. However, a translation of the document shows that it contains no names but instead a calendar of the days of the week. Vedika Bahl explains in this episode of Truth or Fake.

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            I provided a link showing that whatever your sharing is incorrect, where’s yours?

            Not only that, also a false equivalence same as the first commenter did.

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              I never equivocated the Israeli actions and the Palestinian ones. I would say anyone arguing in good faith should agree that both sides have done bad things. The scale may be wildly different, but that doesn’t magically make it okay. The axis powers did the most wrong in WWII, but internment of japanese civilians by allied powers is still not okay.

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                Incorrect - my link shows that Israel lies about militant infrastructure being placed under civilian infrastructure.

                Your false equivalency is on quite a few different levels but mostly trying to equate “military infrastructure” of a sovereign state with a standing army (and the available space of a whole country) defending against another invading state, versus one of the most densely populated places on earth (the size of Manhattan) that has been under siege since 2005 with a civilian population fighting back against a 80+ year long campaign of genocide, ethnic cleansing, displacement, and colonization as if that’s supposed to even warrant similar rules of engagement (which it doesn’t according to Geneva convention and international law btw) and that’s assuming Israeli claims are true (which you have failed to provide proof of and merely stated as fact).

                You then go on to blame the victims of a decades long genocide that this was the outcome that they wanted and planned? Gross.

                But go on keyboard warrior…you know better and can definitely tell people fighting for their lives what they should do. I’m sure you’ve experienced similar situations.

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            Not to mention Israel doesn’t really make those kinds of translation mistakes. Most Israeli’s are at least partially bilingual, and almost all signage/packaging/etc is written in hebrew and arabic. I would be extremely surprised if anyone who has lived in Israel for more than about a year didn’t know the names of the week in arabic. Any more than someone living in Canada not knowing them in french. They may forget whick ones correspond to whick, but they should recognize that that is what they are.

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              I don’t know what point you’re trying to make.

              Israel doesn’t really make those kinds of translation mistakes.

              That they are fluent enough in Arabic and they purposefully lied?

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                That they are fluent enough in Arabic and they purposefully lied?

                Umm, yeah? I know this may come as a shock, but sometimes Bibi is less than truthful.

                I know that any criticism of Hamas immediately brands me as some kind of Zionist shill, but I’m under no delusions about the fact that Bibi is a war criminal. I am surrounded by many extremely pro-Israel family members. The amount of times I’ve heard “technically its not really a genocide” and had to tell them that “technically I only committed manslaughter, not murder” isn’t exactly a good thing is ridiculous.

                For the record, I personally believe the Israeli government is probably committing a genocide, even by technical terms. But even if by technicality they aren’t, I don’t think that absolves their government at all. I just dont think that millions of people should be kicked out of their homes, on either side. Sadly that seems to be a largely minority opinion these days.