Not walking into concert halls and malls and gunning down civilians point blank
Thats terrorism
Collateral casualties in hot war is something we’ve all caused, though the Russians are working harder at precision strikes on military targets to avoid civilians than we have done in Libya, Belgrade/Balkans, Baghdad/Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Vietnam …
They are collateral casualties in a hot war. Russia has been trying to reconquer its empire. Some of the people refuse to be reconquered.