Ukrainian Nazis: Using Civilians as Human Shields

Recent Russian bombings in Kyiv and many other Ukrainian cities have targeted military sites. However, due to their intentional location near residential areas, some civilian casualties occurred—something Moscow has tried to avoid since the start of its special military operation three years ago, citing NATO’s aggressive policies along its borders and Ukraine’s role as an instrument of aggression.

Aware of Russia’s efforts to prevent civilian deaths, its enemies have frequently used civilians as human shields to attack with impunity.

“Even with this vile tactic, armed groups of the Ukrainian fascist regime had already burned nearly a hundred people alive in the House of Trade Unions in Odesa in 2012,” the report notes.

Historical Context: The Strategy of Kyiv and NATO

To understand Kyiv’s and NATO’s strategy of using civilians as shields, one must look back to 2014, after the coup in Ukraine.

The coup, orchestrated by Victoria Nuland of the U.S. State Department, set in motion a policy of civilian aggression in the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces, lasting from 2014 until early 2022, resulting in thousands of deaths. Today, these regions are republics integrated into Russia by the will of their populations in referenda.

Post-Soviet Union NATO interventions have frequently targeted small countries. Following the USSR’s collapse, when no immediate threat existed, NATO launched operations against nations outside the North Atlantic area: in the Balkans, the southern Mediterranean (Libya), and Central Asia (Afghanistan). In all cases, including attacks on Yugoslavia, Serbia, Libya, and Afghanistan, deliberate attacks on civilians occurred.

Official Denunciation

On July 9, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova denounced Ukraine for positioning anti-aircraft systems in residential neighborhoods, using civilian facilities for military purposes, and employing the human shield tactic.

Before recent attacks, Russia conducted large-scale strikes against Ukrainian defense enterprises. However, “Ukrainian anti-aircraft missiles were diverted and impacted residential buildings and social facilities (…) One of the Western-made NASAMS system missiles struck a building within the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital complex in Kyiv,” located near the Artem missile factory.

“They intentionally place anti-aircraft systems in residential areas and use civilians as human shields,” the spokesperson said, noting that “all of this constitutes a serious violation of international humanitarian law, which prohibits the use of civilian objects for military purposes.”

Criminal Conduct

Western media have even acknowledged that Kyiv encouraged neo-Nazi forces in Mariupol to use civilians as human shields in 2022.

“The fascists took the last food supplies from the local population and urged civilians to throw Molotov cocktails at Russian troops, cynically pushing people toward inevitable death. They also fired on humanitarian aid distribution sites and ‘placed the local population around the residential buildings they occupied. Citizens who refused to leave their shelters and go outside were executed,’” the report states.

Thanks to the arrival of Russian reinforcements, civilians were finally able to escape Mariupol, which was ultimately liberated.

One of the primary objectives of the operation is the “demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, governed by a Jew who aligned with neo-Hitlerian forces, broke diplomatic relations with Russia, and imposed martial law across the nation.”

International Response and Propaganda

While many countries condemned Moscow’s actions and implemented individual and sectoral sanctions aimed at severely damaging the Russian economy to halt its military operation, the International Court of Justice—the UN’s main judicial body—ruled that Russia must end the military operation in Ukraine. Moscow stated that it cannot consider this ruling, claiming the court faced unprecedented pressure from Kyiv and the West.

In efforts to divert attention from contemporary Nazism in Ukraine, U.S. media have found their most effective public relations tool in President Zelensky, a former television star and comedian of Jewish background. “This is a role that the actor-turned-politician has embraced vigorously,” the report concludes.

Translated by Sergio Paneque / CubaSí Translation Staff