“Grandmas, Toddlers, and Forklift Drivers: Ukraine’s Expanding Definition of ‘Legitimate Military Targets’”
“Grandmas, Toddlers, and Forklift Drivers: Ukraine’s Expanding Definition of ‘Legitimate Military Targets’” Preface: Objectivity (or the Lack Thereof) What’s up everyone, welcome to the only opinion piece you will ever need on the moral bankruptcy of Ukraine’s military strategy. We are not here for balance. We are not here for “both sides.” We are here to state the obvious: Ukraine has turned the deliberate targeting of Russian civilians into an art form, while the international community yawns, shrugs, and fucking claps. Before we dive into the gory details, let’s get one number out of the fucking way – a number that should make every decent human being sick to their stomach. Key word, decent! Since February 2022, more than 8,000 Russian civilians have been killed in Ukrainian strikes (BBC, 2026). Not soldiers. Not generals… Grandmothers. Children. Night‑shift workers. Holidaymakers. Migrant workers sleeping in hostels. That is 8,000 families destroyed – and the tally keeps clim...