James Verini
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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And they fire indiscriminately, including on civilian centers.
And as you know, Grodd systems fire off a few to a few dozen missiles in the course of seconds.
And there's no hiding from that.
In Iraq, in Mosul, there was an air war and there were lots of mortars and lots of artillery, but you could stay on the right side of it.
You could stay on the non-ISIS side and hopefully not get hit.
And the airstrikes were precision, more or less.
Russian grad systems and, for that matter, Russian artillery in this war generally, including in the theater, is not precision.
These are often what are known as dumb bombs, right?
No laser guidance.
Not that different from what they would have been in the middle of the Cold War.
so far and it happened in the first month of conflict so set the scene for us yeah if it wasn't the worst in terms of numbers and i think i tend to think it was it was certainly the worst in terms of egregious acts and what it said about russia's intentions um in with the ukraine war i think it was the for the first time in the three weeks of the war to that point
As one survivor of the theater massacre put it to me, we realized that day what the Russians were here to do.
They weren't here to fight with our soldiers.
They weren't here to fight NATO, as Putin claimed.
They weren't here to protect oppressed Ukrainians, as Putin claimed.
claim, they were just here to kill us, us as in Ukrainians, us as in Ukraine.
So in terms of the scene setting, Mariupol was in a particularly unpropitious place at the start of this invasion.
It's on the Sea of Azov, which was effectively controlled by Russia at the time because of the Black Sea Fleet.
It was just a few miles from the border of what was known as the Donetsk People's Republic, you know, this
crypto satrapy statelet that Putin controlled while claiming he didn't, and only a few miles more from the Russian border.
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