3. "Russian soldiers came to "liberate" but instead killed civilians and looted homes".Nothing can justify violence, and civilians suffer in every war, but there should be strong grounds for saying that Russian troops are purposefully killing Ukrainian civilians, literally engaging in genocide.
Note:
14.04.2022 | "The UK, Canada, Poland and Spain have condemned Russian military action as genocide,
while France, Germany and leaders of the EU who visited Kyiv last week have refrained from the outright use of the word".
According to the
UN, from February 24 to April 15, 2022, 1982 civilians died in Ukraine.
You can compare this information with the data from the Iraq War because it is
well known. This statistic is consistent with the
Statista website.
The war in Iraq began on March 20, 2003. In Iraq 7434 citizens died after 42 days (from March 20 to May 1 in 2003).
In the early days of the war in Iraq, more than three times as many people died as in Ukraine. But, as far as I know, the world community has not condemned the United States for the targeted extermination of Iraqi civilians.
Literally every UN update on death count explicitly says the numbers they are providing are only confirmed deaths, and they expect the actual number to be
higher.
I'm trying to think of a way that your argument isn't being made in bad faith, and I can't. You obviously have access to the internet and UN reports. You obviously know the war is still going on, making it impossible to know the actual number of dead civilians. And you don't seem like a retard that doesn't understand the difference between 'confirmed deaths' and the actual number of deaths.