Really? How do you save lives but deleting the average Dmitry's personal computer files?
Maybe they were even working on a popular open source product as many average Russians tend to do.
Causing tens or hundreds of thousands of wasted hours by (relatively) high-earning software developers in Russia (who average about 20k USD a year, or $11/hour) is only, generously, a few million dollars USD in "damages".
To clarify, not refuting your point. Just providing napkin math that I agree it doesn't do much.