At least 12 killed in Russian apartment explosion

Moscow is blaming Ukraine for the attack on the city of Belgorod that killed at least 12 people and left more than a dozen injured, according to local authorities.
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[@johnhix484]

And just how many civilian apartments in the Ukraine has Moscow hit with missiles without apology for taking the lives of women and children? Don’t look for any empathy here.

[@sarahbrown5073]

None.

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

This! Slava Ukraini🌻🇺🇦🌻

[@ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky]

You’re just as heartless as the Russians themselves. You aren’t any better. It’s amazing how propaganda ruins people.

[@ruZsiaNa-C]

@@ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky need a straw?

[@ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky]

@@ruZsiaNa-C No, but you need a heart.

[@xtxschmidt]

Russia ready to play victim speedrun

[@GhostShip-iv9rg]

Q: When you look into the eyes of a NeoCon, what do you see? A: The back of their heads. You people are so, so dumb...

[@AC-pz6cy]

Are you retarded?? Russia didn't start this.. NATO and Biden did

[@thedirty530]

Literally what happens when you start a war...

[@trumpdrago517]

Blowing up a civilian building? Does it matter who started it?

[@ericwieboldt7042]

The intentional killing of civilians? Weve got a tough guy here.

[@rabiealkurba2520]

Ukraine started it, also by your logic don't cry when Palestine fights back.

[@ruZsiaNa-C]

@@rabiealkurba2520 russia started this

[@rabiealkurba2520]

@@ruZsiaNa-C no Ukraine did 10 years ago

[@andonrangelov8844]

The block is hit from north to south so it can not be Ukraine because Ukraine shoots from south. One can check the location of the block from this coordinate and compare the blue building next to the block to ensure this is the same place 50°33'27.2"N 36°34'44.3"E

[@sarahbrown5073]

They used a Vampire MLRS. They're highly mobile, as they're mounted to the back of a pickup truck.

[@xXNP4CNuclearXx]

Russia starts war, blames Ukraine for fighting in said war.

[@matovicmmilan]

No, it blames Ukraine for deliberately killing civilians by targeting the area with no military target in miles.

[@ericwieboldt7042]

​@@Random_Dude42you're not too smart there are ya buddy

[@NG..]

@@Random_Dude42 it could’ve been a Russian missile, given the state of their army I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re using old surplus Cold War rockets that could just drop out of the sky 😂

[@matovicmmilan]

@@Random_Dude42 Proofs there's anybody else on the territory of Ukraine 20-30 km southeast of Belgorod?

[@rabiealkurba2520]

​@@Random_Dude42 So it was an alien rocket ? Also what proof that the rockets that hit Ukraine were russians ?

[@mrAZcardinal]

Russia and Palestine so shocked when the wars they start begin to hurt them back.

[@GhostShip-iv9rg]

Q: What do you call a NeoCON behind a steering wheel? A: An air bag.

[@lifevest1]

“Pfff, rookies.” - Florida apartment building codes

[@dbzbruh3674]

Man I don’t want to be here anymore

[@abumahmoud9845]

We don't know how the retaliation could be

[@ssherrierable]

Karma bombs are the worst

[@risa_sh.youtube3244]

*Nam myoho rengekyo** 🙏 pray 🌍 peace 🕊️ be safe

[@epuchildren8780]

Putin: Ukraine is bad for fighting back. Ukraine: Stop smoking!

[@againstviralmisinformation510]

Ukraine is bad for targeting civilians!

[@lakeliving2013]

Russia blames Ukraine for waging war.. 😂

[@ssherrierable]

That’s because Russia was only doing a special military operation when Ukraine just started killing people than declared war…

[@BugattiFlow]

@@ssherrierable😂😂😂

[@DissectGibberish]

Russian hypocrisy is famous across the world.

[@josepheriah5977]

Ukraine strong

[@albanegrette1488]

Corrupt ukrainians

[@legendofman12]

Putin has much blood on his hands for starting this conflict.

[@ericwieboldt7042]

This conflict was started over a decade ago and it wasnt Russia that started it. Seeing the American flag, it doesnt surprise me that you are ignorant of this.

[@DissectGibberish]

@@ericwieboldt7042 You have swallowed the Russian crap hook, line and sinker. Perhaps you should look at "real" history? Something that makes sense? Something that Occam's Razor doesn't shred like so many wet noodles. How much is Putin paying you, anyway?

[@johndavison4569]

@@ericwieboldt7042 It was started by Putin and his Little Green Men in early 2014, although you can trace Putin's plans back to at least 2008, when he started complaining to anyone who would listen about how the evil West was denying Russia her God-given right to occupy all of the former Soviet Union and anyone else who didn't have the means to fight back. It doesn't surprise me that you're feigning ignorance of this. Stop promoting genocidal imperialism and lying about the origins of Russia's genocidal war of aggression against Ukraine.

[@javajetson257]

@@ericwieboldt7042 Correct! Peter Daszak is from Ukraine. Broaden your mind and connect the dots.

[@TheCossack]

Explosion? You mean attacking civilians because you cant cope with losing?

[@user-xp5id1kh4r]

What weapon system does Ukraine have that could do such damage? They don't have any cruise missiles that are that big

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Well, Ruzzia’s been killing thousands of civilians for well over 2 years now. Who’s losing again?

[@sarahbrown5073]

​@@user-xp5id1kh4rit was a storm shadow.(Edit: it wasn't a storm shadow, they used the vampire mlrs as they have previously. Storm shadow missiles were fired, but at the Kerch Bridge and were intercepted. The Kerch Bridge is now closed.)

[@brandonleeiacocca6640]

Why would they waste it on that target...with whatever munitions they have...it will be at high value targets..not targets that may cause other nations that are helping to back off. Think...Mark...think!!

[@iiiryconiii8992]

@@sarahbrown5073sure buddy waste an expensive missile

[@ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky]

People who treat this war like a soccer game disgust me. Like American politics, have shame on yourselves.

[@lameetcalice3845]

Malum In Se/Malum Prohibitum Nothing moral requires authority. Authority is the claim to the exclusive exemption to morality. It is a monopoly on violence. Violence is a violation because it is the initiation of aggression, not self-defense. Offense/defense are ontologically distinct. All crime has a legal equivalent (ie, taxation is extortion). Every government is founded on Ad Baculum. Petitio Principii can and will be used against you. Warren v. District of Columbia Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales DeShaney v. Winnebago County Lozito v. New York City You are legally compelled via the logical fallacies Ad Populum, Ad Baculum and Ad Verecundiam to pay for protection that they are not legally obligated to provide. That's a mafia. The highest Abrahamic value is Ignorance of Good and Evil. It's right there in Genesis. They worship Yaldabaoth, God of the Scapegoaters: God blames Man; Man blames Woman; Woman blames Serpent; Serpent blames God, more accurately - the Serpent defines God. God Condones Child Rape No.s 31: 17-18 God Condones Rape Deut. 22: 28-29 God Condones Abortion No.s 5: 11-31 Unquestioning Obedience to Government Rom.s 13: 1-7 Ritualistic classifying surgery as a means of psychic castration, like circumcision and sub-incision, are hallmarks of patriarchal culture, a demonstration to the young that the venerable old ones still wield the all-powerful knife - and the beginning of transsexualism. Those who do not perform the cult's rite can never enjoy full social status. Symbols of the castrated member, the tie and bow-tie, are mandatory accoutrements of the political wardrobe and phallic monuments are erected to commemorate the minds conquered long ago. Brute force is no longer necessary. The capitalist priest class of Psychiatry, working in tandem with the State bureaucracy, regulates and polices the new Restriction and gelding of desire. Psychiatrists, along with other legal arbiters, help to obscure justice with grey areas of intentionality, mental state, etc. Some mistake this as a system of Liberty, ignorant of the fact that Psychiatric Control is a cornerstone of the perfected Totalitarian State. All modern illnesses come from the absurd and tragic struggle of man's inability to bridle Nature. This dogma echoes perpetually, omnisciently by understanding voices in self-help books, billboards, radio commercials and television talk shows to convince the public to practice continual self-suppression and hormonal restraint. Any deviation is an indication of something severely wrong with the individual. Perhaps Lycanthropic Transformation Rites are in some way a Psychic Preparation for the millennial calamities that are thought to lie ahead. Legalism is a Language of Equivocations, a process of assimilation to violence and illogic. Etymology: government Gubernare: to control Mens/Mentis: mind culture Colere: to inhabit, to till Cult: collective mind -ure: process of civilize, etc. Civitas: city -ize: to do/to make like police, policy, politics, polite Polis: city authority Auctor: master, father, creator -ity: quality of religion Religare: to bind fast, to place an obligation on -ion: noun-forming suffix uniform Uni-: one Form: shape They lump themselves into a group. They want all the collective praise and none of the collective blame (No True Scotsman). If they were truly concerned for their reputation they wouldn’t wear a uniform. Badges are just snowflakes. "Everything is metamorphosed into its opposite to perpetuate itself in its expurgated form. All the powers, all the institutions speak of themselves through denial, in order to attempt, by simulating death, to escape their real death throes. [...] For example: it would be interesting to see whether the repressive apparatus would not react more violently to a simulated holdup than to a real holdup. Because the latter does nothing but disturb the order of things, the right to property, whereas the former attacks the reality principle itself." - Jean Baudrillard (Simulacra & Simulation - 1981) "Our rulers, who rule our symbols, and so rule a symbolic class of life, impose their own infantilism on our instituitions, educational methods, and doctrines. This leads to maladjustment of the incoming generations which, being born into, are forced to develop under the un-natural (for man) semantic conditions imposed on them. In turn, they produce leaders afflicted with the old animalistic limitations. The vicious circle is completed; it results in a general state of human un-sanity, reflected again in our instituitions. And so it goes, on and on." - Alfred Korzybski (Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics - 1933) "I am a cosmopolitan." - Diogenes "If I could not be Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes." - Alexander the Great "A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years." - Lysander Spooner (No Treason: Constitution of No Authority - 1867) "It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement." - Étienne de la Boétie (Discours de la servitude volontaire ou le Contr'un - 1577) "Leadership in government is political power, and political power is an official form of antagonizing the people. Politics are rules imposed upon the people. They have every man in a straight jacket and without a passport he cannot move a toe. In a free world, they violate the natural rights of every citizen. They have become the weapons of political despots and if you don't think as they think you're deprived of your passport." - Michael Chaplin as Rupert Macabee (A King in New York - 1957) "Imagine, if you will, a world filled only with criminals of whom there are two classes: those too honest to rationalize their crimes and the powerful who scapegoat them." - Rod Serling "Eye have no Moral Obligation to ask permission from the person to whom Eye Morally Object if Eye may exercise mEye Moral Objection." - Unknown ^\~}##\%|{%\#}~\

[@AA-ch7yw]

It’s just like a soccer game. Where the home team was practicing in their hometown stadium. Then out of nowhere an away team storms the field, murders the home team, kidnaps the children watching from the stands, steals the concessions and toilets, then levels the entire stadium to the ground.

[@xXNP4CNuclearXx]

Based

[@ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky]

@@lameetcalice3845 everything you said was taken out of context, and total bullshit. Stop listening to old socialist nerds.

[@ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky]

@@AA-ch7yw No, on the contrary, war is it’s own game.

[@ericwieboldt7042]

Zelenskyy is in the powder again

[@Sandra-ud8py]

After I learned that Ukraine has been bombing Russian city with innocent civilians since 2014 and didn’t agree to the Minsk agreement to stop it, I see Ukraine as an aggressor too. And when Zelensky said on air that they will continue to kill Russian people in that city because they are not people for him, I lost all my respect for him. It is actually on KZbin, if you understand Russian/Ukrainian u can watch it. Mb there is English version too. Of course They are both bad, war is wrong. But I’m thankful that Russia is fighting only armed forces, unlike Zelensky that is still killing civilians in Крым.

[@Ksins1]

Баклажан The United States has a bad memory, they have already forgotten about the Russian Avangard missiles, about the Poseidon underwater torpedoes. Europeans also need to remember!

[@wesleyallen1173]

And you are proof that russia is very good at disseminating misinformation.

[@johndavison4569]

Please, send us a link or at least the channel name and video title. I'd like to see something that supports your tall claims.

[@stonejohnson122]

It is POTATO

[@NickYankee]

who cares?

[@jakemensik2842]

Just by the way, this wouldn't be the first time Russia bombed their own apartment complex. They bombed their own apartment complex, blamed Chechnya, then invaded Chechnya. They were eyeing Chechnya for a long time.

[@primitiveaccommodation]

You came late to the Lies Party

[@againstviralmisinformation510]

There has been no conclusion evidence to suggest Russia bombed their own apartment building to start a war. They didn’t need to do that since Chechnya invaded Dagestan and to use this conspiracy to deflect guilt instead of taking responsibility is evil to say the least. You are no different than Israel

[@minaolenella869]

​@@primitiveaccommodationit is literally truth, bot

[@primitiveaccommodation]

@@minaolenella869 We all believe you AI 🤪

[@primitiveaccommodation]

@@minaolenella869 You need to be ready to call all Africans, Asians, Middle Easters and South Americans bots, nations around the world are inviting and supporting Russia worldwide

[@GhostShip-iv9rg]

Q: Why did the NoeCON drive into the ditch? A: To turn the blinker off.

[@blueridger28]

Trying to get the initiative before the American toy box makes it to the front..Makes me wonder if a US ATACM was what hit the apt building.

[@perropulgoso3351]

👍

[@theashpilez]

The civilian targeting started in 2014 against Russian areas. Defending their areas and their population is a right. The more civilians targetted will simply make their resolve stronger. Interesting how in ukr only military and supporting industries are in the cross hairs. Anyone that does not see the truth by now will come to a rude awakening in the future.

[@cyclewisconsin105]

Those were Ukrainian areas, not Russia's.

[@ericwieboldt7042]

​@@cyclewisconsin105Ukraine was slaughtering ethnic russians for nearly a decade

[@lucycarola]

Civilians are to not be targeted by anyone we’re giving money to. That’s never truly necessary. I hope it’s not true and that this was not done by Ukraine. 😮

[@sarahbrown5073]

I don't think anyone is denying it. It's not like this is the first time civilians in Belgorod have been targeted.

[@markclipsham9199]

Between satanyahoo and putin you could fill a half a thimble with truth - maybe. Who knows?

[@johndavison4569]

It's very unlikely that Ukraine was responsible for deliberately targeting Russian citizens. On the other hand, Putin's Russia has a habit of bombing civilian infrastructure as a fundamental strategy, not to mention an endless list of crimes against humanity (child trafficking, raping and torturing civilians, and so on) and blaming Ukraine for every friendly-fire incident for which Russia is responsible.

[@markclipsham9199]

Two people killed in israel today.

[@jody-ne7xs]

These wars need to end.

[@markclipsham9199]

@@jody-ne7xs They will stop when they are no longer profitable, same with poor health and climate change.

[@mopthermopther]

😮

[@obadiahconrad8989]

WW3

[@user-nn3et4zz7o]

Primitive ,aggressive autocracy-Russia

[@gregvoight8616]

Really?

[@mile_high_topher]

@@gregvoight8616 Really.

[@gregvoight8616]

@@mile_high_topher It's so ugly that zelensky is preparing to run from ukraine to Russia 🇷🇺

[@cyclewisconsin105]

@@gregvoight8616 You are such a comedian, what a joke.

[@squadman3376]

Putin is straight out of 1984.......

[@ericwieboldt7042]

You're confusing President Putin with your logic

[@javajetson257]

@@ericwieboldt7042 Its more like the US and Biden is right out of 1984. Zelenskyy too.

[@ericwieboldt7042]

@@javajetson257 I'm with you 100% on that one.

[@javajetson257]

@@ericwieboldt7042 Let me be clear. Russia is the hero in this conflict. Look up who funded the Bolshevik Revolution.

[@chasecoleman6739]

Oh well. People die in war. I think russia forgot lmao!

[@Asif_Bcn]

Zelensky stay strong

[@cjchris8317]

😂😂

[@nikrajic6674]

​@@TheCossackagain putins bot, how do you feel in his bum?

[@gregvoight8616]

Zelensky is crying😅😅😅😅😅 looking for the way to escape ukraine

[@user-xp5id1kh4r]

@@TheCossack At least he's taller than Putin, lmaoooo!

[@eerboe]

Zelensky's term ends May 20. Time for him to retire.

[@michigancountry2381]

CIA responsible?

[@noradorsey6901]

😢

[@marshall3278]

Ukraine shells an apartment and ABC reports an "explosion" XD JFC you guys

[@againstviralmisinformation510]

They do the same to Palestine

[@briannat1086]

Shame

[@walterscott2286]

The recent and present day Putin advantage: ALL THANKS TO COMRADE Marjorie Taylor Green, Matt Gatze, and the other a-hole MAGA crap that held up this desperately needed financial aid package!!

[@ericwieboldt7042]

A little unhinged there bud? I've never seen someone blow a gasket trying to give away billions of stolen dollars.

[@lemontadams3029]

The Russian military-industrial complex is the most powerful in the world when it comes to production of major types of arms and military equipment

[@LocestSwarmSC831]

Angry Z noises 😂

[@Fitwm]

USA , STOP PAYING OUT

[@sergsilvestr1217]

Wait a minutte… Ukranians hit apartment building in Russia, killing civilians and you blame Russia in doing that?

[@johndavison4569]

What (besides Kremlin propaganda) leads you to think that Ukraine would hit an apartment building in Russia?

[@ImmaTwoPops]

So Ukraine attacked a civilian target,is slow joe now going to deny them weapons? I’m betting he has nothing to say about his family’s sugar daddy country attacking civilians 😂

[@markclipsham9199]

The truth is an endangered species.

[@TheJollyRogerPirate]

Putin has leveled how many residential apartment buildings ? Karma is a biotch

[@agamemnus0]

Yes, Putin was in those apartments.

[@pawsformercy1050]

Russia dishes it out but cant take it RUSSIA STARTED IT what the hell did he expect ? Flowers ?

[@anestabakovic2903]

The us/cia started all this in 2014, just like they tried in Georgia in 2008, check some facts and do some research on the history of this region before making idiotic statements like that

[@GhostShip-iv9rg]

Um, no.Ukraine broke the Minsk Accords (ceasefire and peace agreement) when it started to mount an offensive into Donbas to confront separatists. Two days after the attack by Ukrainian forces started, only then did the Donbas regions declare independence from Ukraine and ask for Russian assistance, which you are seeing today. Ukraine started this current phase of the war (likely at the behest of the Biden Administration). Please get your facts straight.

[@primitiveaccommodation]

US started it, and US brain washing you

[@ignitespark9293]

Must be one of those bots again.

[@primitiveaccommodation]

@@ignitespark9293 Anything that doesn't fit your narrative is bots? Keep living in denial

[@supremeee666____6]

It was ukraine

[@centralgirl10]

Sure Jan 🙄

[@sarahbrown5073]

@@centralgirl10 no one seriously questions who fired the missile. That's a ridiculous notion. It was a Czech made Vampire MLRS, provided by the US. I will never understand why people believe things that make zero logical sense