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>Do you really think Russia is limiting their attacks on Ukraine because of some benevolence? Yes, obviously. Just consider the rate of civilian death toll in

• mopsi 1y ago
  The civilian death toll in Ukraine is severely underreported due to a lack of access to the occupied territories, while the death toll in Gaza is greatly overreported because Hamas is the primary source of information and they are known for inflating the numbers a lot. Another factor is the nature of the warfare. Russia uses forced conscripts from occupied territories (a war crime on its own) in a deliberately wasteful manner to exterminate them. A significant portion of military deaths deserve to be counted as Ukrainian civilians. Nor am I entirely sure that the tens of thousands of convicts coerced into the military can be considered "military" in the conventional sense. Modern standards and definitions are not well aligned with such a feudal behavior.