Kazan:
"The Russians have gone out of their way to minimize civilian causalities." I see... that's the first time I've noticed anyone make such a ridiculous claim, and you base that on what, exactly?
Statistics for Ukrainian civilian casualties put them at around 11,000 killed and 18,000 wounded.
And there is a long list of other war crimes committed by Russian forces against Ukrainians, not the least of which are missile attacks on civilian targets.
Russian war crimes in their invasion of Ukraine lists Russian crimes by categories:
- Abduction and deportations
- Attacks on civilians
- Torture of civilians
- Civilians as human shields
- Sexual violence
- Looting
- Forced conscription
- Mistreatment of prisoners of war
- Genocide
- Unlawful wanton destruction or appropriation of property
- National legal proceedings
- International legal proceedings
- Other international organizations
- International reactions
There are no reports on Russian civilian casualties in Ukrainian attacks on Russian infrastructure, such as the Kerch Strait Bridge to Crimea and the recent Severomuysky military train tunnel in eastern Siberia, though presumably there were some.
I think the issue of Russian war crimes, attrocities and genocide in Ukraine is well worth exploring in depth, if you are interested enough in it.
A banner in Vilnius, Lithuania: