> "Genocide" became a meaningless word because it's used willy-nilly similarly to "terrorism". Even if we are to trust number of civilian deaths reported by Western and Ukrainian sources it's really far from being "genocide". IIRC in relative terms, the US invasion of Iraq with subsequent fight against ISIS is closer to "genocide" than the invasion of Ukraine.
Genocide has a definition and even basing our assertions of just what Russia is admitting that they are doing they meet the definition of genocide, its not meaningless it just has a broader definition then most people know.
You can read the definition of genocide from here.
>> https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
>> In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
>> Killing members of the group;
>> Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
>> Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
>> Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
>> Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
You could argue about some of the points but Russia _proudly_ admits they are kidnapping Ukrainian children and forcibly relocating them to Russia. So they meet point 5 of the UN definition of genocide.
> And as for "rape children", it's yet another blatant demonization. The lies became so toxic, Zelensky even had to fire Denisova, the person responsible for distributing most of such claims without properly supporting them with evidence. Most of "Russian soldiers rape children" articles you read in the Western media were citing Denisova.
There are multiple counts of different atrocities that the Russians had committed if you want to discount the child rape go for it, but we plenty of evidence of Russia raping plenty of people in Ukraine.
> Oh wow... Are you incapable of critical thinking? Like at all? Russians can always physically cut wires in the territory they control.
Are you incapable of discussing something in a civil manner?. Please read the guidelines for hacker news https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
> If they wanted, they could've easily bombed every substation in Ukraine with its missiles. But because they do have some humanitarian considerations, they don't do it (unlike some other countries). As we can see, Russia has no techincal trouble bombing stationary objects as far as the westernmost Ukraine.
Yes the country that is levelling cities, kidnapping and forcibly deporting children, and raping women (and allegedly children) has 'humanitarian considerations'.
Russia regularly uses civilian deaths as a part of its war machine they are trying to do it to Ukraine like they did it too Chechnya in Grozny. It's why they force civilians to stay in the cities they capture.