When Russian invaders were marching into urban centers and Ukrainians in those centers needed to shoot at them, an ammo pile 25 miles behind them wouldn’t have been much use. Nor would it be useful to attack the invader from 25 miles outside the city after the invader was going door to door INSIDE the city.
It’s a stupid argument.
Russia didn’t exactly park up in open farmland, and call the Ukes out for an old school traditional battle away from the peasantry.
Russia is firing missiles into cities in Western Ukraine. Whether they think legitimate targets might be there or not, the argument that Ukraine is creating human shields and nuclear risks over 500 miles behind the front line and inviting Russia to attack those locations is beyond pathetic.
Just so you know, I do have experiance with this sort of thing. My relatives were on the defeated side of the War Between the States. I serves no one to hold a grudge from the past. Ukrainians persecuting ethnic Russians wasn't right either.
Our United States, with NATO, successively encroaching toward Russia while telling Ukraine we would fight with them to destroy Russia was wrong.
This is only up to Russia and Ukraine to resolve.