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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Ed Morrissey: Russian Media Reveals Putin War Crime Policy
Description: At the start of his invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin claimed that Russia only wanted to liberate Ukrainians from a clique of alleged Nazis. Now a new declaration in state-owned media outlet RIA Novosti has made clear that Putin seeks to erase Ukraine and the ethnic Ukrainian identity. First, all forms of national defense “should be destroyed,” including Ukraine’s standing army and its home guard valiantly defending Ukrainian sovereignty. Russia would demand a complete purification of all such elements as a basic conclusion to hostilities. Even more chillingly, the plan calls for Russia to treat “a...