“There is no real civil war in the Ukraine.”
It seems that the Red Cross, the arbitrator of those determinations, by International Law, disagrees....
Designating a Civil War is important for a lot of reasons, not just for prisoners and civilians.
The Red Cross is no arbiter of international politics. Nor is “International Law” a valid entity, what with tyrants subverting its definition all the time.
If one side of said alleged “civil war” is openly in favor of an outside entity (Russia), it cannot be a civil war by definition. And the opposing sides are in favor of differing outside entities, in addition.