Putin using barbaric Hitler-style tactics to ‘terrorise’ Ukrainians, say experts

Vladimir Putin is using barbaric Hitler-style starvation tactics to "terrorise, subjugate and kill" Ukrainians, experts have warned.

In March last year, footage emerged of bodies strewn across a street outside a bakery in the northern city of Chernihiv after coming under fire from Russian forces as Ukrainians helplessly waited for a loaf of bread.

The siege was the result of either a 122mm Grad multiple rocket launcher or a Howitzer, according to an investigation carried out by international law firm Global Rights Compliance .

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Further tactics targeting food and water sources have been likened to Nazi Germany.

At least 20 people died in the bakery massacre in which, alongside various armed sieges and pillaging of farming machinery, are said to be all part of "Putin’s calculated plan" to starve Ukraine into submission experts claim.

Barrister Catriona Murdoch, the head of Global Rights Compliance's Starvation Mobile Justice Team, said the killings were the "tip of the iceberg in Putin’s calculated plan to terrorise, subjugate and kill Ukrainian people".

In just some of the barbaric attacks, thousands of tonnes of grain has been stolen and food storage sites bombed. Missiles have destroyed power stations and also cut off the Kherson region after Putin allegedly blew up the Nova Khakovka dam.

It left entire areas underwater with corpses contaminating it and deeming it unsafe to drink.

Lost Ukrainian agricultural production due to the war is also of global significance because Ukraine is a major exporter of grains and oilseeds, especially corn and wheat and also of barley and sunflower oil.

It's been likened to when the Nazis were under Hitler's watch. Hitler also used famine as a weapon of war, drawing up a chilling plan to starve some 20 million people.

Ms Murdoch continued: "The evidence is pointing towards a deliberate plan carefully designed to undermine and attack the very foundation and societal fabric of Ukrainians, subjecting them to inhumane living conditions.

"It is imperative that these crimes are fully investigated so that we can create a bedrock of truth and a historical record which can be used both to counter Russia's lies and to find justice for Ukraine’s victims and the survivors of these crimes."

The EU's agriculture commissioner, Janusz Wojciechowski, previously said: "The only interpretation is that [the Russians] want to create hunger and to use this method as a method of aggression. It is similar method that was used in 1930s by Soviet regime against Ukrainian people."

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