There is no real civil war in the Ukraine. It’s really a proxy struggle between Russia (who still regards the region as their “breadbasket”) and the European Union.
Remember that Putin’s “Eurasian Union” is a new form of the old USSR, with no specific focus on communism.
“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.