In a strange shift, Lavrov was quoted as saying that Israel’s war on Gaza is identical to Moscow’s military operation against Ukraine.

In a strange shift, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was quoted as saying that Israel’s war on Gaza is identical to Moscow’s military operation against Ukraine.

The comments, attributed to Russia’s top diplomat, were cited by Russia Today in an interview on Thursday with RIA Novosti.

“The goals declared by Israel for its ongoing operation against Hamas militants in Gaza seem nearly identical to those put forward by Moscow in its campaign against the Ukrainian government,” RT quoted Lavrov as saying.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, 21,320 Palestinians have been killed, and 55,603 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

Palestinian and international estimates say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.

Many international law experts have accused Israel of carrying out a genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip.

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    • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      While not exactly the same, the Israeli and Russian treatment of the territory they occupied in their respective wars are similar in their complete and utter apathy for civilians.

      No, not really. Israel has been actively trying to genocide Palestine, while Russia hasn’t been doing anything worse than what the West does when it invades countries, which is called “collateral damage” when they do it.

      albeit with completely different amounts because again, Ukraine has a real army).

      A huge amount of Ukraine is entirely under Russian control, and yet, no genocide.

      Put another way, if Ukraine had been systematically robbed of and denied the means to defend themselves like Gaza was, it’d also be in a similar situation.

      A baseless speculation that you can’t back up. Although the fact that the massive parts of Ukraine that are under Russian control, including Crimea, don’t look anything like Gaza, is strong evidence against you.

      The critical difference here is that Ukraine is in a much better position to resist, not that Russia isn’t attempting genocide. Basically Russia is looking at Israel and saying “I wish this was me”, not “I’m better than that”.

      No. You can’t just make baseless accusations of ‘they totally would commit genocide!’ otherwise I’m going to claim the only thing stopping you from slitting the throat of every baby in Moscow is the fact that you physically can’t.