Russia’s Creeping Genocide Was Stealthy

In February 2014 hundreds-of-thousands of Donetsk male residents participated in the Euro-Maidan protests. Today, ten years later, that city and the part of its region the Russians occupy is completely denuded of males between the ages of twenty-five and fifty-five. Russia’s creeping genocide in Ukraine was stealthy because not even I, a highly educated international lawyer, categorised what I witnessed as such.

Source: Full Working Draft, Ch. 9

The statistical evidence of stealth genocide: a city “denuded of males.” From Euro-Maidan protesters to cannon fodder in ten years. The trajectory is visible only in retrospect.

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