Russia’s Vladimir Putin wrongly called Saturday’s partial destruction of a flagship bridge linking Russia to annexed Crimea a “terrorist act”. His revenge was to unleash mass terror on cities across Ukraine on Monday, missiles raining destruction from the sky in the midst of the morning rush hour. The bombardment was the most wide-ranging since the early weeks of the war. Since international law states parties to conflict “must at all times distinguish between civilians and combatants” and not direct attacks against civilians, it is hard to see this as anything other than the latest in the Kremlin’s grim catalogue of war crimes in Ukraine, one directly ordered by its president.
俄羅斯總統(tǒng)弗拉基米爾?普京(Vladimir Putin)錯(cuò)誤地將上周六連接俄羅斯和被吞并的克里米亞的一座旗艦橋梁部分被毀的事件稱為“恐怖主義行為”。他采取的報(bào)復(fù)是，周一在烏克蘭各地的城市發(fā)動(dòng)大規(guī)模恐怖襲擊，導(dǎo)彈在早高峰從天而降，毀滅一切。這次轟炸是自戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)開始的最初幾周以來范圍最廣的一次。由于國(guó)際法規(guī)定，沖突各方“在任何時(shí)候都必須區(qū)分平民和戰(zhàn)斗人員”，而不得直接攻擊平民，因此很難不認(rèn)為這起事件是克里姆林宮在烏克蘭犯下的一系列殘酷戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)罪行的最新一起，而且是由其總統(tǒng)直接下令。