“CIVILIANS USED BY ZELENSKY AS HUMAN SHIELDS IN SUMY”. Russia unveils Kiev-NATO War Propaganda to Rearm Ukraine and Blames UN Secretary
What we know about Russia’s Iskander strike on Ukrainian military command in Sumy
by Carlo Domenico Cristofori
Russia delivered a strike by two Iskander-M missiles on a gathering place of Ukraine’s military command in Sumy on April 13, destroying over 60 Ukrainian army personnel, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Monday. TASS has gathered key facts about the strike on of Palm Sunday..
«On April 13, the Russian Armed Forces delivered a strike by two Iskander-M tactical missiles on a gathering place of the command staff of Ukraine’s Seversk operational-tactical group in the city of Sumy amid the Ukrainian army’s active counter-measures by foreign-made electronic warfare and air defense systems, the ministry said in a statement» TASS wrote.
The strike on the target eliminated more than 60 Ukrainian army personnel, it said. But Western media reported 34 dead (including two children) and 117 wounded without mentioning the military facility hit and the soldiers killed.
The Kiev regime continues using civilians as a human shield, holding measures with the army personnel in the center of the city of Sumy and placing military facilities there, the ministry stressed. The Russian Armed Forces deliver strikes solely on military and paramilitary targets, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
This is not the first time that the pro-Nazi regime of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has used war propaganda as a tool to raise awareness among the European population just when EU governments are discussing new military aid plans.
As noted by German-born historian Tarik Cyril Amar (read below), Kiev’s initiative is widely supported by mainstream media that have huge conflicts of interest with the Weapons Lobby.
The Previous False-Flag on Missile Attack to Pediatric Hospital
In July 2024, the spotlights of all TV channels in the world were on the missile launched against a children’s hospital in the Ukrainian capital. Zelensky accused Russia, Moscow blamed the attack on the Ukrainian army’s anti-aircraft systems.
An exclusive investigation by Gospa News revealed that the missile used was in the possession of the Ukrainian army that deliberately hit an unused wing of the old hospital that had been evacuated. No official report on the list of alleged deaths was ever updated by the Ukrainian authorities and Western media, which simply spread the Kiev regime’s version without any objective evidence of what happened.
The Ukrainian army, on the other hand, has been using cruise missiles supplied by NATO countries and Italy since May 2024 to attack civilian residential structures in Russian territories, as documented by Moscow’s diplomats in a detailed complaint to the UN.
It is estimated that over 600 Russian civilians were killed by bombings aimed at homes that had no military objective whatsoever.
This represents a war crime like those committed by the Israeli Zionist regime of Benjamin Netanyahu in Palestine.
Russian MFA: “UN chief’s remarks on Sumy events expose selective approach to UN Charter”
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s remarks on what happened in the city of Sumy expose his selective approach to the provisions of the United Nations Charter, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
“On April 13, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres made another statement on Ukraine through his Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric, which was dedicated to developments in the city of Sumy. Russia was accused of carrying out a missile strike on April 13, with claims that this was the latest in a series of such attacks on Ukrainian cities,”
she pointed out.
“Such assessments by the UN secretary general are nothing if not confusing. We would like to point out that since the very beginning of the special military operation, Russian forces have never carried out deliberate strikes on the civilian population, and they will never do that. The Russian Defense Ministry points out on a regular basis that targets only include military facilities,” Zakharova added.
“The UN secretary general’s statement also expressed support for efforts to achieve peace for the sake of preserving Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity in line with the UN Charter, international law and the relevant UN resolutions,” the Russian diplomat noted. “It’s easy to see that it does not mention the right of peoples to self-determination. This is further proof of Antonio Guterres’s selective interpretation of the provisions of the UN Charter,” she stressed.
The Sumy missile strike: War, propaganda, and hypocrisy
by Tarik Cyril Amar is a historian and expert on international politics – originally published by RT (former Russia Today)
On April 13, Russia launched an attack on a target in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy. All reports –Western, Ukrainian, and Russian – agree on some basic facts: The attack consisted of two ballistic missiles; substantial numbers of people were killed (over 60, according to the Russian Defense Ministry; over 20 in Western and Ukrainian reports) and injured (over 110, per Ukrainian reports).
Beyond that, however, a thick fog of war has descended. Or rather, a fog of propaganda. Western media and politicians have denounced the Russian strike as, in essence, an atrocity or war crime. The New York Times, for instance, presented it as slamming “into a bustling city center […] on Sunday morning, […] killing at least 34 people in what appeared to be the deadliest attack against civilians this year.” Incoming German chancellor Friedrich Merz (to be sworn in at the beginning of May), speaking on one of his country’s most popular TV shows, condemned what he called a “perfidious act” and “serious war crime.”
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In the US, President Donald Trump’s special – if largely sidelined – envoy for Russia and Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, has invoked his experience as a “former military leader” who “understand[s] targeting” to denounce the Russian strike as “wrong,” adding that the attack “on civilian targets in Sumy crosses any line of decency.” Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, is “appalled at Russia’s horrific attacks on civilians in Sumy.”
Both Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron saw an opportunity to call for “imposing” a ceasefire on Russia. Merz, for his part, felt the need to talk, once more, about providing Kiev with German Taurus missiles. The fact that Ukraine has made a point of not complying with the partial ceasefire officially already in place seems to make no difference. Neither, clearly, does the fact that neither France nor Britain has the means to compel Moscow. That the use of the German Taurus to strike at, for instance, the Kerch Bridge may well invite – perfectly justifiable – Russian retaliation against German targets, whether in Germany or elsewhere, seems to appear equally irrelevant to Merz
More examples could be added, but the trend should be clear: In the West, almost everyone agrees that the Russian attack on Sumy was an atrocity and in the EU there is talk – if we are lucky, it will remain just that – of exploiting it as a pretext to escalate further the proxy war in which Ukraine is being used up against Russia.
Yet there are two major problems with this escalatory approach: Most importantly, it is not based on facts but on disinformation originating with the Kiev regime, taken over uncritically and spread enthusiastically by Western mainstream media and many political leaders.
Though not, actually, all of them. That is the second, as it were, practical problem for the escalation brigade: The single most powerful Western figure is not playing along. Trump has not condemned Russia. He did call the attack “terrible” and “horrible” and claimed that he was told that “they [presumably meaning Russia] made a mistake.”
Whatever basis (US signal intelligence? Hearsay?) he has – or not – for this statement, politically, the key point of Trump’s first reaction was that he demonstratively refrained from joining the rest of the West in escalating, while stressing that the war as such is the issue and ending it the solution.
A similar approach in a statement on X by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirms that this is not a fluke but Trump’s and therefore Washington’s policy, at least for now. America’s president has clearly – and unsurprisingly – decided that his halting and open-ended yet still at least ongoing attempt to achieve a normalization with Moscow is more important than joining the latest propaganda campaign against Russia.
Trump – so criminally wrong in the Middle East – is right on this one, even if he is pursuing extremely pragmatic purposes. He is also, as it happens, right here in a more fundamental sense, which brings us back to problem number one with the Western mainstream treatment of the Sumy attack: Despite Kiev’s endless record of deception, the Western claim that the Russian attack was a crime is once again based on that very murky source alone. Ukraine’s past-due-date president Vladmir Zelensky, for instance, has decried a “horrific” attack hitting “an ordinary city street, ordinary life.”
Macron, Merz, Starmer, Kellogg the New York Times, The Telegraph – to name only a few examples – all follow Zelensky’s and Kiev’s lie that this was a deliberate attack on civilians. Yet, in reality, Russia struck at a gathering of Ukrainian soldiers. Soldiers, yes, even on Sunday and also on Palm Sunday, are legitimate targets in armed conflict. It is not criminal to attack them.
That is an elementary legal reality, rooted in the Law of Armed Conflict. And, when the boot is on the other foot, the West knows this well: No one there decried a Ukrainian “war crime,” when Kiev’s Western-supplied artillery wiped out almost 100 Russian troops sleeping in their quarters behind the front line in January 2023.
Indeed, the few Ukrainian media and politicians who still dare publicly contradict the de facto authoritarian Zelensky regime are clear about the fact that Ukrainian soldiers were the target: The major Ukrainian (not Russian) news site Strana.ua has reported that the Ukrainian authorities have tried to be cagey about the exact location of the Russian strike, while, at the same time, “more and more information is emerging from various sources that the Ukrainian military was the target of the strike.”
More specifically, Ukrainian parliamentarian Maryana Bezuglaya, former parliamentarian Igor Mosiychuk (politically on the far right and definitely no friend of Moscow, by the way), and a local mayor have stated that the Russian missiles hit an award ceremony of the 117th Territorial Defense Brigade, a Ukrainian unit that fights in the region.
There also are serious accusations, but not merely against Russia. Instead local and central Ukrainian authorities are under fire: Mosiychuk and Bezuglaya surmise that Russian forces may have gotten wind of the target from what can only be described as criminal negligence, namely unguarded invitations to the ceremony.
Mosiychuk, in addition, denounces that the organizers invited civilians, including children. And he suspects not only sloppiness but extremely dubious motives. He believes that a local politician and a parliamentarian – from Zelensky’s Servant of the People party, incidentally – were using the military ceremony as a “PR” stunt, and his hope is that the “trash and scum,” as he calls them, will be arrested.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense, meanwhile, has stated that the strike targeted a meeting of Ukrainian commanders. Award ceremony for the troops, meeting of officers, or, perhaps, both – whichever way you look at it, this was a military target.
Let’s address one thing squarely: A large number of people have died and been injured, and yes, they do include civilians and children. This is terrible, but it is precisely not a matter for cheap political exploitation to make the war even worse and last even longer. As this is an armed conflict, Russia has a right to strike at Ukrainian forces, as Ukraine has a right to strike at Russian forces.
There is another thing that is clear: Those who pretend that this was a deliberate attack on civilians are either disinforming or disinformed, or both. It is possible that Russian commanders failed to consider the likelihood of also killing and hurting civilians; it is possible that they did consider it but decided that the risk was in proportion to the military gain they expected. That form of thinking, again, is part of the Law of Armed Conflict. They may have been wrong, and critics can argue that, if they wish. But this was not a massacre of civilians but a fundamentally military attack.
Those in the West who want to pretend otherwise are – this must be said as well – the same politicians and mainstream media outlets who have sided pro-actively with Israel while it has committed an ongoing, stunningly violent and perverse sequence of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes against the Palestinians as well as its neighbors in Lebanon and Syria.
Germany’s Merz, for instance, found strong, false words for condemning the Russian attack on Sumy, and is threatening once again to give German missiles to Kiev. This is the same man who wants to invite internationally wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu to Berlin. The hypocrisy is breathtaking, but not surprising.
Tarik Cyril Amar – originally published by RT (former Russia Today banned in EU)
Tarik Cyril Amar is a historian and expert on international politics. He has a BA in Modern History from Oxford University, an MSc in International History from the LSE, and a PhD in History from Princeton University. He has held scholarships at the Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and directed the Center for Urban History in Lviv, Ukraine. Originally from Germany, he has lived in the UK, Ukraine, Poland, the USA, and Turkey.
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