Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed on Tuesday that Ukraine would escalate its drone attacks inside Russia and warned that "safe days" are over for civilian aircraft in Russian airspace. "Today, we want to warn every airline that uses Russian airspace, every insurer, and everyone who still
  • BassTurd@lemmy.world
    517·
    2 days ago

    To steal the post of someone hire up this post that shared the entirety of the quote…

    “Today, we want to warn every airline that uses Russian airspace, every insurer, and everyone who still uses Russia’s key airports: Russian airspace is becoming completely unsafe.”

    “Ukraine does not threaten civilian aviation as such – not a single civilian aircraft. There will simply be drones in Russia’s skies on a scale that has to be taken into account”

    “We in Ukraine do not want innocent lives to be lost. That is why we are warning our partners: the safe days in Russia’s skies are over. It is important that this is heard by the ambassadors of countries represented here in Ukraine, as well as by ambassadors working in Moscow.”

    You cherry picked one line without context. His statement is a warning that non military flights will be flying through an active war zone, so proceed with caution. It’s not a threat that he plans to attack civilian targets. He definitely intends to do harm, to Russian military and infrastructure, but if civilians put themselves in harms way, they may end up as an accidental casualty. That’s different than some like Putin who specifically targets civilians.

    • DirtSona@feddit.orgEnglish
      211·
      2 days ago

      Sounds like Israel’s statements.

      We don’t kill any civilians on purpose. We tell just them all the areas where they could be staying might get bombed. It’s their fault for not disappearing in thin air before our bombs turn them into thin air.

    • zedcell@lemmygrad.ml
      151·
      2 days ago

      Ukraine have repeatedly targeted civilians both historically in the Donbas and in Russia during the war.

      • BassTurd@lemmy.world
        118·
        2 days ago

        I didn’t say you didn’t read it, but I did say that you were disingenuous for cherry picking part of the quote leaving out the rest of the context. The first paragraph is a fair warning to anyone flying in airspace that is going to get more dangerous. That’s not him saying he’s targeting civilians or that he intends to.

        • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
          131·
          2 days ago

          But the final paragraph is him saying that they don’t care if or when they take out a civilian aircraft because they did a warning.

          It’s the same as when cops shoot someone while giving themselves plausible deniability