Western Media Continue to Provide Cover for Kiev Regime War Crimes

Despite a “truce,” the Kiev regime has launched a furious artillery bombardment on the city of Donetsk. Western media are referring to this not as a “bombardment” or an “attack,” but as “fighting.”

That's like calling the Nazi Blitz of London during World War II “fighting.”

It's true that the defenders are reported to be responding with counter-artillery fire. Still, calling a siege “fighting” is highly misleading. The people of Donetsk are entering winter now with no heat or light, thanks to the Kiev regime's destruction of power plants in the area. Meanwhile Western media periodically whines that Moscow won't give Kiev free gas. (Oh, they don't phrase it like that, of course. They lightly skirt over the huge arrears of unpaid gas bills and paint Moscow as an extortionist and arm-twister for wanting to be paid for gas already provided and used, and to charge closer to market rates for new gas to a now hostile regime instead of selling at a discount.)

Area artillery bombardment of a city obviously targets civilians, their homes, and the civilian infrastructure. Thus it is a war crime. The Western-chosen Ukrainian government based in Kiev has been bombarding cities in the breakaway eastern regions all year. Now, during a “truce,” that regime has initiated a furious bombardment of Donetsk, apparently in retaliation for the recent “illegal” and “illegitimate” election held there.

Here's how the BBC refers to artillery bombardment/war crimes:

“Heavy fighting has broken out in Donetsk.” The “fighting” in question is artillery shelling by the Kiev regime, while pretending a “truce” is in effect. The Donetsk Republic forces responded with artillery, if BBC is to be believed. A BBC correspondent on the ground reported that the shelling was intense.

“Fighting” didn't “break out.” The Kiev regime unleashed an artillery bombardment on a city it previously devastated and left without heat for the winter.