News is from last year, but it’s still dystopic for anyone that missed it:
At a European Commission press briefing in Brussels on 13 October, Nunziati asked the spokesperson Paula Pinho: “You’ve repeatedly said that Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you think Israel should also pay for the reconstruction of Gaza, given that it destroyed much of the Strip and its civilian infrastructure?”
on 27 October, the journalist received a letter terminating his working relationship with the news agency, which, however, did not specify the reasons for this decision.
The Agenzia Nova news agency told Fanpage.it that Nunziati’s question was “completely out of place and technically incorrect” and had created “embarrassment for the agency”
You’re right, Israel-Palestine cannot be equated to the Russian invasion of Ukraine because the former is a genocide whereas the latter isn’t. This makes the comparison even more relevant though: “if you call for war reparations here arguing from international law, how are you not calling for even more reparations there from genocide under international law?”
Relocating children? Only allow the Russian language in occupied areas? Deny that Ukrainians have their own culture and are/should be part of the Motherlandtm? Looks at least like an attempt at genocide to me.
The main source for this claim is the Ukrainian government though, there’s no independent journalistic reporting confirming that this is happening at scale
Likely true, haven’t done any research but sounds plausible
That’s what Ukraine was doing In eastern Ukraine but backwards, and it’s very bad policy in both cases. However, this unfortunately happens in essentially every modern nation state (look at Occitan/Breton in France as an example).
In conclusion: Russia is engaging in Russian nationalist policy, and homogenization of culture, which is policy I hate and condemn, but not enough to call genocide unless we say that most modern atates are engaging in genocide.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/03/un-commission-concludes-deportation-and-forcible-transfer-ukrainian-children
https://commission.europa.eu/topics/eu-solidarity-ukraine/bringing-ukrainian-children-back-home_en
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/12/1166507
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-expands-forced-re-education-deported-ukrainian-children-us-research-shows-2025-09-16/
The “estimated 20.000” figure comes directly from the Ukrainian government, and as I claimed, hasn’t been independently verified. The 1.200 by OHCHR is likely true as they claim are confirmed independently (thank you for your source), and while I thoroughly condemn it, I wouldn’t argue it amounts to genocide. Forcible removals of custody from children are something Roma people are forced to in Europe very regularly, and while a disgusting practice, I wouldn’t agree that it amounts to genocide.
At least four out of five criteria are documented. And while I think Russia/Ukraine and Isreal/Palestine are not comparable in a lot of aspects, what Russia is trying to achieve still does look like an attempt at genocide.
The Genocide Convention recognizes five distinct genocidal acts:
killing members of the group,
causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group,
deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part,
imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, and
forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
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Are Putin and Palestine on the same side? Is Putins attack on Ukraine helping the suffering people of Gaza and the Westbank?
I just said: ‘Putin attempts genocide in Ukraine.’ I didn’t call to allocate resources somewhere or ask to let Israel have it‘s way but stop Russia.
Russia is absolutely not deliberately inflicting group conditions calculated to bring their destruction. Compare civilian casualty rates in the US invasion of Iraq vs Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. You are grasping at individual instances, not widespread practices.
They are targeting civilian infrastructure and residential buildings hundreds of kilometres away from the front.
Give me figures for civilian casualty rates and compare them to other modern conflicts like the Invasion of Iraq. You’re again talking from isolated incidents and not generalized practice.