| This is an outrageously blatant lie. Of course, Russia is trying its best to damage as much civil infrastructure as it can. A quote: "The latest available assessment by the World Bank, European Commission, United Nations and Ukrainian government found that direct war damage in Ukraine had reached $152 billion as of December, 2023, with housing, transport, commerce and industry, energy and agriculture the worst-affected sectors." [1] By now, it should be over 200 billion. The reasons why Russia failed to cause more damage have nothing to do with demoraphics, good will, or anything like that. After all, Russia sent to death hundreds of thousands of ITS OWN citizens. Had it cared about russian lives as much as you are trying to whitewash here, it would not have been fighting this war to begin with. The real reasons why Russia has not caused more damage or killed more civilians, are, first, it has failed to achieve air superiority. Second, Ukraine, with the help of its allies, was able to set up more less effective air defense against missiles and drones. "Nearly 12,000 missiles have been launched against Ukraine by Russia since this full-scale conflict started. Some 80% of those have been intercepted by Ukraine." [2] The number of drones must be comparable or higher. The limited number of civilian casualties is easily explained by the number of refugees from Ukraine which is in the millions. Its definity not because Russia did not try too hard. [1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-russias-invasion-h... [2] https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c20726y20kvt |