I am feeling guilty trying to write following because it will seem as if I am defending Russians, I am not. But have to bring this up because
it's important to see if Ukrainians are deliberately trying to have civilian causalities or not.
This
bridge was demolished on or prior to 25-Feb-2022 by Ukrainians themselves as reported by multiple pro-Ukrainian accounts (
see img #5).
Firstly when they demolished it, they hurt few souls as seen by the
van in the collapsed bridge (
#6).
Then
these civilians in quoted post are killed probably around 6-Mar as per the timestamp of tweets.
From 25-Feb to 6-Mar
for almost 10 days Ukrainians didn't allow civilians to evacuate despite knowing that Russians were coming from this side.
Russians have repeatedly alleged that Ukrainians are using
civilians as human shield and have not allowed to leave.
Now I will give weightage to Russian claims
based on other pieces of evidence seen earlier like Ukrainian soldiers taken positions in Daycare/Kindergarten(
#1), canon amid apartments (
#2), bunkers on apartment roofs (
#3), shooting the escaping civilians, killing mayor of their own city, and killing one of their own negotiators, etc. And based on that precedence I
speculate that Ukrainians
willfully started evacuation right when Russians were firing,
as indicated by Ukr soldier's behaviour (
#4) in the footage, and ducking journalist, both indicate that an active fire was going on, yet Ukrainians decided to allow civilians evacuate in direct fire. Based on precedence, Ukrainians wanted to have civilian causalities and a journalist was ready to capture that exact moment.
Lots of civilians can be seen in background (
#4) leaving in direction away from collapsed bridge with luggage right when allegedly Russians are firing.
(#1)
(#2)
(#3)
(#4)
(#5)
(#6)
1= civilians killed at this location.
2= cameraperson probably a journalist.
3= collapsed bridge with a fallen van.
4= billboards.
5= church.
6= white high rise buildings.
After repeatedly watching the clip, it even looks
staged? to me because fireball was smack in the middle of road and
both civilians and cameraperson and soldier in black was equidistance from that fireball. Also the
fence did not seem shaken by the explosion. Soldier in black crawled away then probably returned on feet.
Soldiers immediately turned to victims, Cameraperson to more exposed place, and turned their backs towards alleged Russians were they certain Russians won't fire any more shells?
Apparent injuries on civilians also don't look like they were fatally injured.
And one lady has
clean face and hands and no apparent injury.
Now it's possible that blast wave might have killed them, but such a strong wave must
scatter the luggage too.
And
eye glasses on one guy are as if he laid down slowly and carefully. A body flung by a blast wave won't have eye glasses to well put in place.
No shrapnel damage on jackets.
Railing, coffee cup, plastic water bottle, and even a white tissue paper or a plastic bag, all indicate there was no blast of any lethal intensity.
