Putin’s way of war is utter depravity

Soon after Vladimir Putin’s forces leveled that Kyiv theater clearly labeled “children,” word came over social media from victims of Putin’s 2016 bombings in Syria’s civil war: Never do that, Russia targets anything with a humanitarian sign.

Such is Putin’s way of war: bombing shelters and hospitals and generally targeting civilians.

Days afterward, desperate Kyivans are still digging out, hoping to rescue the 1,300 or so who’d sheltered in the basement.

This follows the March 9 shelling of a maternity hospital in besieged Mariupol, leaving it “literally destroyed,” as regional Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko put it. The attack wounded at least 17, including women in labor, and trapped more beneath the rubble.

One now-infamous image from the scene shows emergency personnel carrying out a heavily pregnant and bleeding woman on a stretcher.

Rushed to another hospital, the mom and her baby died last weekend. Her pelvis had been crushed and her hip detached; the baby was delivered via cesarean “but showed no signs of life,” the surgeon wept.

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