Ukraine endangers civilians by colocating HVAs

Amnesty International has accused Ukraine of locating frontline military positions next to civilian residences and other protected places (hospitals, etc). The accusation pointed to positions in all active theaters, as well as at least 1 Eastern logistic node.

This has been obvious, looking at the Ukrainian casualty announcements. There was obviously a reason why Russia keeps bombing population centers, other than Russia being inherently evil. The logic of cost and efficiency dictates that Russia needs to reserve most of its long-range weapons for high-payoff mitary targets, not population centers of dubious effects.

And Amnesty International has concluded that, yes, Ukraine indeed is locating military assets next to civilian locations. It is unclear, for now, if it is deliberate (though probably yes). Given that Ukraine is aware of GPS jamming technologies and military deception techniques, it is also currently unknown if Ukraine applied those methods, to protect its military assets and to maximize its civilian casualties for political gain. (Probably some instances yes.)

This is yet another reminder that we cannot trust any reporting from any wartime governments. They all want to lie.