{"id":257830,"date":"2022-08-25T06:52:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T06:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=257830"},"modified":"2022-08-26T06:53:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T06:53:16","slug":"russias-slow-progress-is-deliberate-plan-to-save-civilians-kremlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=257830","title":{"rendered":"Russia’s Slow Progress Is ‘Deliberate’ Plan to Save Civilians: Kremlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Mordowanec \u2013 NewsWeek Aug 24, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A top Russian military official said Wednesday that his nation has “deliberately” slowed aggression against Ukrainian forces due to what he claims is the avoidance of additional civilian casualties in the war that began with Russia’s invasion on February 24.<\/p>\n

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made the comments in front of other defense ministers during a meeting of the China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Uzbekistan, The Moscow Times<\/em> reported, with Shoigu adding that Russia strictly observes “the norms of humanitarian law.”<\/p>\n

His words come as Russian forces have encountered stronger-than-expected response from Ukrainian fighters, lacking major military victories since overtaking the cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk in early summer.<\/p>\n

“Of course this slows down the pace of the offensive,” Shoigu said.<\/p>\n

Russian casualties\u2014injuries and deaths\u2014combined have been estimated<\/a> to be between 70,000 and 80,000, according to the Pentagon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Office of the United Nations<\/a> High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 13,477 civilian casualties in Ukraine\u20145,587 deaths and 7,890 injured\u2014through August 21.<\/p>\n

The number includes 7,620 casualties (3,317 killed, 4,303 injured) in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and 1,475 (302 killed, 1,173 injured) in Russian-controlled territory containing their armed forces and affiliated armed groups.<\/p>\n

“Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with wide-area effects, including shelling from heavy artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, missiles and air strikes,” OHCHR reported, adding that actual figures are likely “considerably higher.”<\/p>\n

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Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This makes sense. Russia and Ukraine share a long history and if Moscow wants to secure Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine the last thing they want is to alienate Ukrainians by inflicting heavy civilian casualties. The way the West did in Iraq, for example. It’s a recipe for prolonged conflict. That\u2019s why Russia is methodically taking out Ukrainian defences step-by-step<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257833,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257830\/revisions\/257833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}