• Rose@lemmy.zip
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    18 days ago

    There were probably more civilians killed in Gaza compared to Ukraine, but the total number of people killed appears to exceed that in Gaza. Many people displaced as well. And Russia has a lengthy record of trying to destroy the Ukrainian culture.

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      18 days ago

      Amount of people killed doesn’t necessarily constitute a genocide, it’s generally a deliberate attempt to wipe out an ethnic group that does

    • rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafe
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      18 days ago

      To be fair, there also is more people to be killed and displaced in Ukraine. But yeah, the attempts at cultural erasure and assimilation had begun the moment moscow established itself as separate from Kyiv.