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Russia deploys ambulances as military transports in occupied Horlivka — video

Filed 1h ago · Via NV · The Buffoon Desk
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Petro Andriushchenko, head of a Ukrainian watchdog group monitoring occupied territories, says Russian forces in occupied Horlivka have been using civilian ambulances to transport combat troops and Kadyrovite fighters, according to an interview he gave Radio NV on September 23.

Andriushchenko says the tactic forces Ukrainian forces to strike the vehicles, after which Russia frames the resulting damage as a deliberate attack on emergency services. He points to video from July 17 showing armed fighters riding inside an ambulance in Horlivka as evidence, and says a converted ambulance used to shuttle fighters was later struck by Ukrainian forces.

No independent verification beyond the watchdog's footage and account is cited in the report.

The full dispatch is available from the source below.

✒ FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK
If you dress soldiers up as paramedics and then holler about a war crime when someone shoots at the ambulance, you don't get to act surprised when nobody buys the outrage. This is an old trick with a new coat of paint, and the video makes the paint job pretty obvious. Anybody who has watched this war for more than a week has seen this play before.
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