Ukraine War

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Russian Bombing of Children’s Hospital in Kyiv

Padmini Arhant

The trend witnessed in 2024 warfare strategy viz. Gaza and Ukraine – the aggressors testing fields for military inventory potency and catastrophic effectiveness targeting children and children’s hospitals in Gaza and Ukraine, day care centers in Gaza, kindergarten in Ukraine besides residential complex where children live with their families…pretty much all areas of common dwelling and premises where children live are systematically aimed and reduced to rubbles in military aggression in both Gaza and Ukraine.

Perhaps, this is a new pyro technique from politics proclaimed as world class (?) leadership against victims in Gaza hitting majority children, infants not even sparing the innocents in neonatal wards in hospitals and emergency rooms using violent force by Israel, with co-aggressors – United States, Britain and other western allies since Gaza war onset in October 2023 until now.

Similarly, the gruesome attacks with children as victims in the latest Russian bombing exempt neither United States funded and armed Israel and allies nor Russia for that matter in the prolonged brutal war game.

The actions are condemnable and reprehensible regardless.

The existential threat endangering and violating human lives on all sides as showmanship from the so-called world leadership is unfortunately the global status quo.

The military might and political superiority ironically pursuing children and their facilities in wars is anything but bravado.

On the contrary, politics’ spectre wiping out newly born generations in shelling hospitals and leveling residential buildings widely practiced in warfare is an inflection point for the former flouting responsibility in protecting lives and instead killing, harming and inflicting injury to civilian lives with impunity is contemporary politics’ ultimate abuse of power.

The decadence and decline in utter disregard for lives and human rights among so-called super powers in the world is the last straw in competing with destruction and annihilation of civilians all around.

Nonetheless, none are without appropriate ramifications in accordance with time triggering tribulations for the offensive receiving what is served to victims duly returned to the source and origin in this lifetime.

My sincere condolences to grieving Ukrainian members in the Russian attack on children’s hospital in Kyiv and likewise to Russian mothers and families mourning over the loss of their loved ones in the senseless three-year-old Russia- Ukraine war.

The same is extended to Gazans and the rest of Palestinian population under persistent military ground invasion and air raid from Israel aided and promoted by United States administration and politics behind Gaza genocide.

The United States front line military intervention in proudly admitted provision of deadly weapons and American taxpayers’ multi-billion $$$ in Gaza contributing to preventable Israeli hostages casualties largely from Israel’s relentless violent indiscriminate air assaults over ten months now is an irrefutable war crime.

In the escalation of warfare with no end in sight in Ukraine – Russia and Gaza by Israel, the war crime is increasingly the common casual occurrence for the warring factions carried out with political immunity in direct violation of humanitarian law and ethical standards obviously meaningless to politics. 

Padmini Arhant