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One side was unarmed civilians blocking the road to the plant for couple days until Russians started to shoot and wounded several civilians.

• postalrat 5y ago
  In other conflicts those are known as human shields.
  • trhway 5y ago
    Human shield is when forced. In this case it were willing people, a lot of older and mid-age people to whom it was their way to resist.
    • postalrat 5y ago
      Up until this conflict it was never required that human shields must be forced into that position.
• mring33621 5y ago
  If you don't move aside when ordered to by a man with a gun, you might get shot.