Russia Accused of "Human Safaris" in Ukraine, Targeting Civilians as Strategy

A leading war research group says Russian forces are now using the deliberate killing of civilians as a standard military tactic. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) calls this "weaponizing civilian harm." The ISW report states that Russian troops are pervasively using "human safari" tactics. This military jargon describes a cruel practice: hunting individual civilians or civilian vehicles with drones, as if on a safari. This assessment comes after two recent drone attacks on civilian buses in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region on April 7. The ISW says these strikes are not isolated incidents. They are part of a confirmed pattern. The United Nations has previously documented this pattern. UN investigators have classified such systematic attacks on civilians as possible crimes against humanity.