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As the collapse of their portion of the frontlines in Donbass continues, the Kiev regime forces are showing what they’ve been best at for nearly a decade – senseless slaughter of Donbass civilians. What most militaries with sensible leadership do when faced with mounting losses, both in manpower and equipment, is change their tactical approach and adapt to new frontline conditions.

Yet, the worse the situation is, we see more of the same behavior by the Kiev regime forces. What is the military sense of shelling residential areas? Precisely none. Does it have a demoralizing effect? No. The people of Donbass have been under constant shelling for nearly a decade now and they don’t even duck when hearing incoming shells and rockets. Children born in the besieged region don’t know what peace is. For them, shells hitting their homes is a “normal”, regular occurrence. They never got the chance to see anything else.

And yet, despite the feeling of deep respect one has for the people of Donbass and their fearlessness, unfortunately, casualties are nearly a daily occurrence in the region. Upwards of 15,000 people have been killed, with several times more injured in the process in nearly a decade of Neo-Nazi junta shelling. And this keeps going. The Kiev regime forces entrenched several kilometers outside Donetsk have been there just so their artillery could target the city, although the DNR People’s Militia is virtually not in the city, leaving no significant military targets there.

Thus, the obvious question arises – why do it? What is the reasoning, no matter how senseless, behind the desire to keep murdering innocent civilians? Well, there’s only one logical explanation – raging hatred of genocidal proportions. As many of the Banderist Neo-Nazis have stated, Ukraine has “too many people, especially in the south and the east. These people are good for nothing and should be dealt with”. These words were uttered by a Neo-Nazi journalist over a year before the Western-backed Maidan color insurrection brought a Neo-Nazi junta to power.

And the “final solution” continues in the minds of these individuals. No matter how crippling the losses of the Kiev regime forces are, the need to kill the people of Donbass seems to be their main driving force. After Russia’s military operation started, the regime forces have been pushed back from their positions near the residential areas along the entire Donbass frontline, with the exception of Donetsk outskirts, where the frontlines are still virtually unchanged.

As a consequence, locals are still suffering from artillery bombardment, but as stated before, this yields no military results, but only leads to the senseless murder of civilians and destruction of local infrastructure. Unable to launch a counteroffensive, the Kiev regime forces continue the failed attempts to get rid of the Russian-speaking residents. The advance of Russian and Donbass forces is slowed down by the heavily fortified and entrenched Kiev regime forces in areas of Avdeevka and Mariinovka and by occasional, mostly unilateral ceasefire instances, the aim of which is to evacuate remaining civilians.

Also, for the first time, the Kiev regime forces are reported to have started using weapons provided by their NATO backers for the purpose of this “final solution”. The last days of May have seen a spike in artillery attacks on Donetsk and the surrounding areas, as well as elsewhere in the areas of Donbass still in range of Kiev regime forces. DPR officials have confirmed that nearly all city districts have been targeted, including the city center. To make matters worse, even areas outside Donbass are being shelled.

As per various sources, including South Front, the following areas have been targeted in the last 5 days:

• On May 26th, the village of Novovoskresenskoye in the Kherson region was shelled with rocket-propelled cluster munitions. In total, two unguided missiles were fired at the settlement by the Kiev regime forces, which also launched more than 600 PFM-1C anti-personnel mines. The attack was carried out by using 9M27K3 “Uragan” multiple rocket launchers with PFM-1S anti-personnel mines. Each rocket carries 312 mines.
• On May 27th, the regime forces carried out an attack on the town of Svatovo in the Lugansk People’s Republic, the settlement was struck by three “Tochka-U” cluster munition-tipped missiles, which are prohibited by the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. As a result of the attack, 3 residents were killed, 23 wounded, 5 of them children, including a 2-month-old baby.

According to the local officials, the air defense units of the LPR People’s Militia managed to shoot down the missiles, however, civilians were killed as a result of the detonation of the cluster warhead of the missile.

On May 29th alone, 4 civilians were killed, with at least 20 injured. The DPR office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination on ceasefire and stabilization of the demarcation line (JCCC) reported the following attacks on the settlements in the Republic:

Makeyevka:

A woman born in 1949 and a man born in 1957 were killed. Men born in 1990, 1957, 1959 and 1982 and women born in 1967, 1982 and 1964 suffered varying degrees of injuries.

Donetsk city (Petrovsky district):

An infant born in 2021, a teenager born in 2006, men born in 1956 and 1959, and women born in 1958 and 1988 were injured.

Donetsk city (Kuibyshev district):

A woman born in 1995 was killed, while a man born in 1941, an infant (girl) born in 2021, and women born in 1988 and 1959 were injured.

Donetsk city (Leninsky district):

A woman born in 1959 was killed.

Donetsk city (Kalininsky district):

A woman born in 1957 was injured.

Donetsk city (Budennovsky district):

Women born in 1983, 1982, 2002 and 1997 were injured.

Thus, the total number of civilian casualties from the Kiev regime attacks on May 29 alone is 24 people. Unlike the Kiev junta, the Russian military does not deploy its military equipment in residential areas in the settlements and areas under its control. On the contrary, the Russian forces are going out of their way to avoid injuring civilians. On the other hand, the Kiev regime is deliberately targeting them.

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Drago Bosnic is an independent geopolitical and military analyst. 

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