I’d say it shows an incredible amount of restraint. Putin knows the Brandon administration is doomed once we realize how much damage they did to our country, and our story of national suicide will overshadow his invasion as long as he keeps the civilian body count to a minimum.
I find this particular conflict fascinating not in a demented way, but in a way how it is being fought vs. how conventional wars were fought in the past.
Trying to get factual information in the midst of partisan MSM and social media is one.
Russia has a horrible record when it comes to potential war crime activity, but I often wonder about this particular conflict. Are the civilian casualties a result of the type of resistance Ukraine is waging? A lot of the resistance are civilian soldiers, fighting in residential areas, something the Russians didn't think they would be engaging in.
The Russians probably thought when they start to roll in the Ukrainians would just give up and let them in. With their comrades dying because of this civilian resistance it's possible innocent civilians were killed when the Russians went after those resistance fighters who probably took cover in residential buildings.
Not sure if the Russians are intentially bombing residential areas to break morale, or in retaliation to resistance fighters fighting out of the same buildings.
The Ukrainians, Russians, and MSM are all telling their side of the story. It's hard to know what's really happening out there.