DISINFO: The Russian military does not strike civilian infrastructure
SUMMARY
The Russian military does not strike at civilian infrastructure; humanitarian corridors are being created for the exit of civilians. The offensive of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine is deliberately slowed down in order to allow civilians to be evacuated.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Russia's war on Ukraine has been documented almost in real time by numerous international media as well as countless of civilians on social media platforms.
Human rights organisations and the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, documnet that the invasion of Ukraine was carried out through indiscriminate attacks and strikes on civilian objects such as houses, hospitals, schools and kindergartens.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 3,942 civilians killed and 4,591 injured, by 24 May UN mission update, and 258 children have died and more than 427 were wounded, reports the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
There is plenty of evidence of attacks on civilian targets: attacks on cultural properties; attacks on hospitals and medical care facilities; Mariupol theatre airstrike; Mariupol hospital airstrike; mass shelling of residential areas; bombing of Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Odesa etc.
WHO records 100th attack on health care in Ukraine: Of the current total of 103 attacks, 89 have impacted health facilities and 13 have impacted transport, including ambulances.
As for the claim about humanitarian corridors, a number of attempts to establish a humanitarian evacuation corridor to evacuate civilians from the cities have been made, but have failed due to the corridor being targeted by Russian forces.
See the EU's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine here along with EU vs Disinfo's Guide to Deciphering Pro-Kremlin disinformation around Putin's War.