A senior United Nations relief official said that Russia has so far declined requests to help residents of Russian-controlled areas of southern Ukraine impacted by the breach of the Kakhkova dam.

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      I think for them to stop being assholes they’d need to feel the tiniest bit of empathy first and if the last year of relentless cruelty has shown us anything it is the lack of empathy the Russian government has.

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        The problem isn’t the Russian government; this brutality and callousness has been going on for hundreds of years. The problem is Russian culture that keeps producing these governments

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    There goes the UN trying to interfere in Russia’s genocide of innocent people again. No wonder conservatives and fascists hate the UN so much.

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    I wonder what it would take for UN peacekeepers to get involved. How bad does the situation need to get?

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      UN peacekeepers famously did not get involved when the Serbs massacred Bosnian people in Srebrenica in their own “safe zones”. I don’t know if there are counter examples since then that demonstrate peacekeepers actually keeping peace, but that was the worst situation imaginable, and they still didn’t get involved and just let it happen.

      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53346759

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    Makes sense, it would be a major risk to accidentally shoot a UN representative, while you are shooting on people in need of aid. /s