What kind of dirtbag would choose those organizations to attack? That’s the lowest of the low.
Red Cross and Unicef show up everywhere there's a serious conflict. Often the very first western organizations there. The job of most intel agencies is to keep their governments up to date on those conflicts. Especially one involved in plenty of global conflicts like Russia.
I'm sure the US embeds agents with them all the time.
Using NGOs like this should be as unacceptable as using outright human shields, but as always, it's different when the perfidious foreigners do it.
I mean, yes? At what number of intelligence operatives would firing at Red Cross workers be a good thing?
> Using NGOs like this should be as unacceptable as using outright human shields
Yes. But, like human shields, firing on them with disregard will indeed make people think you're the bad guys.
...and intelligence cover.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vacc...
So now how do you know if the next humanitarian group running around your country isn't full of U.S. spooks?
Damn, they couldn't even be arsed to give them the full number of shots