Perhaps Ukraine realizes Russia wouldn’t worry as much about enemy casualties like the US does. Our leaders haven’t wanted to win a war since 1945.
str: Russia doesn’t operate under the same PC conditions that we do.
Stories of Soviet atrocities - without corroborating video - against Afghans, whom nobody in the West knew from Adam, prompted billions of dollars in aid for the Afghan insurgents. Russian atrocities against Ukrainians, accompanied by video and posted on Youtube will lead to billions *per year* in material assistance and perhaps even NATO air support against Russian forces in Ukraine. In that respect, it would be little different from Soviet flyers facing off against USAF and USN pilots during the Korean and Vietnam Wars.