There is no "explicit purpose of conquest". At no point Russia claimed that, they only said they want NATO far away from their borders. That is an assumption yo

There is no "explicit purpose of conquest". At no point Russia claimed that, they only said they want NATO far away from their borders. That is an assumption you're making, the same way I can claim USA/UK invaded Libya to create ISIS Obama destroyed Libyan lives, that still live worse today than before the invasion Russia will destroy Ukrainian lives They both claimed they did invade it for peace Which invader is a war criminal is not conditional on how advanced the country is