allow them to evacuate and not to target civilians deliberately?
Yes, professor, and did you know that it's not nice to sin and that Western "democracies" have that cute "collateral damage' phrase always handy when asked about dead little girls clutching little bears where the "democratic" bombs tend to fall down from 30,000 feet and occasionally miss their targets?
Not true at all...
That's not what I was told when I visited Crimea a year ago and asked what has changed since that horrific war in 2014. They asked "what war" and told me that the only change was passports - Russian instead of Ukrainian. And money, of course.
I lived under "the Soviet occupation" - presumably a lot worse than the Russian occupation in Crimea. We talked about everything but not about that terrible "Soviet occupation". Except for sh*itty paychecks and empty shelves in meat stores, life was good and nobody was planning a revolution.
Z minus P is really zero. Poor suckers are dying for the "principle" and for Mr. Z who likes his job - even more so now that he became the darling of Western swamps and the naive PF followers.
but all the morons who support Putin
No, moron, an objective observer does not need to live with those he comments about.
"There's no law in Donbass, people have no protection against the arbitrary rule of pro-Russian warlords"
Never heard of pro-Russian warlords in Crimea or any place where Russia is in control. Donbass has been a war zone for years. Might just as well cite Somalia.
Please don't use Heaven as a reference. Chicago or Baltimore will do fine.