Russian War Crimes and Double Tap

According to the geopolitical analysis and writer Peter Zilhen, he is confident that the Russian Federation is at least responsible for over 10,000 war crimes during the Ukraine conflict since 2022 and that the number of atrocities is becoming harder to track.

The Russians are using a tactic called double tap.

This is where the Russian military targets civilian infrastructure and civilians, and when aid workers rebuild and help the Ukrainian citizens, the Russian military then goes on to target the same area again.

The goal is clearly to kill as many Ukrainian citizens, aid workers and other personnel in regions to annihilate the Ukrainians.

This is not violence with any strategic objective; instead, it aims to create as much destruction as possible.

With the Ukraine war dragging onto its third year, the war has shifted from a war of movement or the belief that the Russians could deliver a knockout blow to Ukraine; therefore, the Russians are implementing even more brutal tactics.

The Russians are deploying glide bombs to target Ukrainian infrastructure and civilians again using the double tap method mentioned above.

The intent behind the Russian glide bombs is to make specific regions in Ukraine uninhabitable.

They achieve this by targeting critical civilian infrastructure like water treatment plants and electricity facilities.