"Ukraine’s strategy of placing heavy military equipment and other fortifications in civilian zones could weaken Western and Ukrainian efforts to hold Russia legally culpable for possible war crimes
If there is military equipment there and the Russians are saying we are launching at this military equipment, it undermines an assertion that they are attacking intentionally civilian objects and civilians
Over the past month, Washington Post journalists have witnessed Ukrainian antitank rockets, antiaircraft guns and armored personnel carriers placed near apartment buildings.
In one vacant lot, Post journalists spotted a truck carrying a Grad multiple rocket launcher.
Checkpoints with armed men, barricades of sandbags and tires, and boxes of molotov cocktails are ubiquitous on city highways and residential streets."