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Re:Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea by OrvalWintermute on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @09:31PM (#33003303)
You are forgetting - A civil war of Western Ukrainians vs the Russian Eastern Ukrainians has been burning at varying levels of intensity for a number of years, which started with a US supported coup that overthrew a pro-Russian elected leader [1] (Article biased in favor of Western Ukrainians but gives a good picture)

Western Ukrainians firebombed Trade Union with the ~300 Ethnic Russians (Eastern Ukrainians) in it, and they were burned alive, in Odessa. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/ukraine-dead-o...

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Re:Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea by int_19h on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @11:42PM (#33004000)
Your take on Odessa is wrong on so many levels. For starters, the total number of people who died there was 45, not 300, and most of them weren't ethnic Russians, but rather locals (who are mostly Ukrainians, even if many of them are Russophone) who supported Yanukovich. Neither did it happen out of the blue - it was preceded by street fights involving firearms (and some of people carrying those firearms were later in the Trade Union House), said fights triggered by an attack by a pro-Yanukovich mob on an anti-Yanukovich protest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Odesa_clashes#Events

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Re:Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea by OrvalWintermute on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @07:54PM (#33014682)
Looks like more than 45 to me.

Warning - these are very grisly photos!

https://www.exposingtruth.com/media-wont-tell-odessa-massacr...

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Re:Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea by nradov on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @11:26PM (#33003918)
I haven't forgotten anything. Those incidents don't constitute attacks on Russia.
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