In just less than 4 weeks, 10 million people in Ukraine have been displaced, more than 3 million have fled the country – which has resulted in one Ukrainian child becoming a refugee once per second on average for _four weeks consecutively, - As well as tens of thousands Ukrainian and Russians being killed and whole cities ruined. How much of a psycho does one have to be to look at that and think it’s going according to plan? And what would we call the purposeful “cleansing” of a people that involves the total ruination of a whole city as means to achieve the objective if not genocide?
The way they justify this is by denying that they are doing it at all, and claiming that it is the "Ukrainian Nationalist Forces" (notice how they phrase that like the Ukrainians are "extremists" for daring to defend their country or even HAVE an army) who are displacing civilians. Russian TV shows the devastation and says "look what these barbaric Ukrainian Nationalists do to their own cities as they retreat before our invincible and victorious army." In other words, Russian media shows the aftermath to Russian citizens, claims that the Ukrainians did this to their own cities, and the Russian populace is stupid enough to believe it. I'd expect that kind of mindless, sheep-like obedience to the State's Official Dogma from the Chinese, but I always thought the Russians were a bit smarter than that. It seems they have proven me wrong.