Maybe they should conduct war in a Football field. They could sale seats to watch the killings.
If a country were invaded there would be a street to street battle. I would not expect the invaded country to lay down arms, they would fight every way they can.
Think about what happened in our last real war, WW2. War is war and a lot of innocent people die. The Allies killed a lot of innocent people.
The first rule Putinists follow is never admit you are wrong. The second rule is that the opponents of Russia must be never allowed to defend themselves. We seen this gaslighting movie many times before. We must never forget that Russia invented gaslighting and Fake News.