Explaining complex things in simple words: Russian attacks on residential buildings, Ingush resistance movement, support from Netherlands

RUSSIAN ATTACKS ON RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS

On the night of March 2, Russia attacked Odesa with drones. As a result of an attack on a 9-storey apartment building, 12 people were killed, including five children aged 4 months to 9 years.

• Russia deliberately and systematically attacks civilian targets in Ukraine with missiles and drones. As a result of its war crimes, civilians in Ukrainian cities and villages continue to die.

• Victims of Russian drones are women, babies, older persons. This time, Hanna Haidarzhi, the wife of a priest, with four-month-old Tymofii were among the dead in Odesa. The body of her 8-month-old child was found in the arms of another deceased young woman.

• Only recently, on the night of February 6, 2024, after a Russian strike on Zolochiv, Kharkiv Oblast, the body of a two-month-old boy was pulled from under the rubble.

• Russia's systematic terror against civilians has been going on for two years. During the bombing of Chernihiv on March 3, 2022, at least 47 residents of the city were killed.

• In the context of the genocidal war that Russia is waging against Ukrainians, Ukraine urgently needs additional air defence systems to protect its population. Partners' delay in providing military assistance causes Ukraine to pay with human lives.

INGUSH RESISTANCE MOVEMENT

On March 2-3, a 16-hour battle of the Ingush Liberation Army with Russian punishers took place in the city of Karabulak (Republic of Ingushetia).

• The Ingush people is one of the peoples enslaved by the Kremlin, who seeks freedom and self-determination. Russia is a totalitarian dictatorship and a prison of peoples.

• On February 23, 2024, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a Resolution recognizing the right of the Ingush people to create an independent sovereign national state, condemning Russia's crimes against the Ingush and restoring the territorial integrity of Ingushetia.

• Last year, the Ingush Independence Committee announced the beginning of the formation of the Armed Forces of Ingushetia. The Ingush oppose the empire both at home and in the ranks of the Defence Forces of Ukraine.

• During the battle in Karabulak, Russian punishers used Shmel flamethrowers against the rebels in the area of multi-apartment residential buildings. The Ruscists do not care about the lives of civilians either in Ukraine or on the territory of the Russian Federation.

• It is not the Ingush rebels who are terrorists, but the Russian punishers who tried to destroy them on Z-marked military equipment. Russia is a terrorist state responsible for killing thousands of innocent people.

SUPPORT FROM THE NETHERLANDS

• Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion, the Netherlands has been a reliable ally and partner of Ukraine.

• On March 1, Ukraine and the Netherlands signed an Agreement on Security Cooperation. Thus, the Netherlands has become the seventh country with which a security agreement has been concluded.

• The Dutch government is providing Ukraine with a new military assistance package that includes 14 rigid-hulled inflatable boats (RHIBs), eight paramilitary river patrol boats, and CB90 combat boats.

• The Netherlands will also finance the Czech initiative to order 800,000 artillery shells for Ukraine.

• In addition, the Netherlands is preparing a lawsuit against Russia to oblige it to compensate the country's financial costs to overcome the damage caused by the downing of flight MH17 in 2014.

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