Yes, russia is engaged in many actions that make clear that they are perpetrating a genocide, such as:
- literally saying Ukraine should not exist
- saying Ukrainians aren't a real people, just russians
- planning to solve "The Ukraine Question" (yes, phrased by the Kremlin just as another dictator phrased "The Jewish Question")
- planning to end Ukraine as a country and split up the land between themselves and other countries (maps have even been found among russian forces in Ukraine illustrating this)
- mass executions to rid Ukrainian land of Ukrainians (see Bucha for just 1 example)
- mass shelling of civilian targets (homes, etc.) in cities to rid Ukrainian land of Ukrainians
- destroying and stealing grain from Ukraine to starve Ukrainians (russia has a history of doing this in Ukraine, see: Holodomor)
- refusing and attacking international food aid, mefical aid, and rescue to Ukrainian civilians
- announcing Ukrainians who fled the fighting will have their property and homes given to pro-russian fighters in territory russia controls
- shooting and shelling civilians who try to evacuate
- sending Ukrainians in areas russia controls to "filtration camps" where those who show support for Ukraine are executed or forcibly deported to russia or russian controlled land
- destroying Ukrainian cultural landmarks
- forcing Ukrainians in russian controlled territory to not speak Ukrainian
the list goes longer, but russia has not at all tried to hide it, simply watch what the state propagandists and putin himself say and have said of Ukraine as a sovereign state
I am sure You have your rightful reasons for this anger, I am sure a lot of people do. I mean, even when You write 'Russia', 'Putin', You purposefully write without capital letters.
Maybe time will tell that, despite your anger, You are right. But I sure pray to God that You are not, and that it hasn't/won't come to that.
Heya, since HN is a worldwide website, I think language or locale differences may have led you to misunderstand my post.
The post actually does not contain anger, and is a well researched list of things russia actually has done and is doing.
As well, since they are facts, and not emotion, and since those facts together (even 2 or 3 of them alone, much less all of them taken together) constitute genocide, my own rightness or wrongness is irrelevant to the fact that russia is engaging in genocide.
Though Ukrainians are no doubt thankful of prayers for them in the face of russia's genocide, and your sympathy for them is no doubt appreciated, so thank you <3
- literally saying Ukraine should not exist
- saying Ukrainians aren't a real people, just russians
- planning to solve "The Ukraine Question" (yes, phrased by the Kremlin just as another dictator phrased "The Jewish Question")
- planning to end Ukraine as a country and split up the land between themselves and other countries (maps have even been found among russian forces in Ukraine illustrating this)
- mass executions to rid Ukrainian land of Ukrainians (see Bucha for just 1 example)
- mass shelling of civilian targets (homes, etc.) in cities to rid Ukrainian land of Ukrainians
- destroying and stealing grain from Ukraine to starve Ukrainians (russia has a history of doing this in Ukraine, see: Holodomor)
- refusing and attacking international food aid, mefical aid, and rescue to Ukrainian civilians
- announcing Ukrainians who fled the fighting will have their property and homes given to pro-russian fighters in territory russia controls
- shooting and shelling civilians who try to evacuate
- sending Ukrainians in areas russia controls to "filtration camps" where those who show support for Ukraine are executed or forcibly deported to russia or russian controlled land
- destroying Ukrainian cultural landmarks
- forcing Ukrainians in russian controlled territory to not speak Ukrainian
the list goes longer, but russia has not at all tried to hide it, simply watch what the state propagandists and putin himself say and have said of Ukraine as a sovereign state