engaging him through strategic trade and geopolitical diplomacy.
It was done already and you can see the results.
However, I see no strategic reason in ostracizing them.
You mean now? Or later - after the invasion ends?
Western "democracies" have that cute "collateral damage' phrase always handy when asked about dead little girls
It went beyond "collateral damage" though. We're discussing war crimes now.
I can't find peace since yesterday, I can't stop thinking about it... Especially that more is known now, more details...:
wiadomosci.wp.pl/rzez-w-buczy-to-poczatek-to-co-odkryjemy-w-kolejnych-dniach-wstrzasnie-swiatem-6754888833870368a
My translation of two fragments from the article:
"Earlier on soldiers made a ghastly discovery. On the Kyiv-Zhytomyr route, just some tens of kilometers from the capital
bodies of five women were found. They were naked, put in a pile and burned.
It's hard to imagine what kind of hell they went through before death. Raped, killed, burned - said Andriy Capliyenko, Ukrainian war correspondent."
"The findings in Bucha are terrifying, but the world will shudder at what you can see in Hostomel. I have a verified information about
wives of soldiers who were kidnapped, brutally raped for two days and then publicly hanged. This crime is already being investigated by the Ukrainian prosecutor's office. We can only hope that the perpetrators didn't have time to burn the bodies of their victims. There's a well-founded suspicion that the mobile crematoriums, brought along by Russians, weren't meant for burning the bodies of soldiers, but to cover up their war crimes - said father Vasil."
Some of the photos from the article (the first photo shows burned bodies of a whole family, including kids, the second photo looks like a burned naked woman on a pile of other bodies, the third - a man with no eyes):

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