I said early on that if you don’t want your cities shelled, you declare them open cities and defend on geographical features.
If you force house-to-house fighting, don’t complain that the houses get destroyed.
“if you don’t want your cities shelled”
It is my understanding that in much of the Donbas Russian ethnics typically live in the cities and ethnic Ukrainians are the majority in the countryside.
“houses get destroyed”
In Continental Europe, most people in cities live in apartment buildings I believe.