DISINFO: Ukrainian authorities prioritise staying in power over soldiers' lives
SUMMARY
The missile attack on the Ukrainian training camp in Sumy was the result of successful Russian technical intelligence work [...] This was not the first successful operation: in mid-April, a missile struck the meeting place of Ukrainian leaders in Sumy [...] What happened clearly demonstrates the enemy's level of control and decision-making ability. It's not that they are inept at fighting, but that the system itself do not prepare the army for enhanced combat. Thus, the Ukrainian authorities are guided only by the political status quo: maintaining power is more important than saving the lives of their soldiers.
RESPONSE
This is a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative portraying Ukrainian people as unwilling participants or "cannon fodder" in the war.
Several newspapers of record, including The Financial Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal cited experts and officials as saying that minimising losses and avoiding unnecessary risks has been a strategic priority for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The Russian military, on the other hand, has been known to repeatedly launch reckless "human wave attacks," often using poorly trained and equipped personnel, resulting in mass casualties.
The deaths of many Ukrainian citizens and soldiers is the outcome of Russia's unprovoked and unjustified full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and Russia stands as the sole party responsible for such deaths. Ukraine is only acting in self defence to repel the Russian invasion as enshrined in the UN Charter Article 51. Ukraine's sovereignty has been violated many times as a result of continuous acts of aggression by the Russian armed forces since 2014, culminating with a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine starting on 24 February 2022.
See similar cases such as that a ceasefire would lead to the Nazis using more Ukrainians as cannon fodder, that the Kyiv regime doesn't care that citizens are dying because they just need soldiers to die, that Kyiv does not care about its citizens as it throws its troops in the meat grinder, that Russian army prioritises its soldiers' lives while Ukraine sends its troops to slaughter, that Kyiv is providing people for slaughter in return for weapons from the West, that Zelenskyy sends his soldiers to be slaughtered for Western money; and that Ukrainian leadership leads soldiers to their slaughter.