Like I told noway the toll is much higher but we can't know now,but maybe you comparing the toll to African wars. There a number of factors one Ukraine has war bunkers taht people can take refuge in when being bombarded, Secondly the hotspot areas were quickly evacuated to safer areas west and out of the country before Russian moved in, several factors cant say all now. Don't have time have to get my herd of Dorper sheep back from the fields into the pens
I'm not comparing to Africa at all. What I read, at least from Ritter, is that normal (meaning American) wars typically have 1 to 1 numbers or far higher. The number the UN have found in Ukraine so far are incredibly low, 1 civilian for every 3 dead military.
That just doesn't jive with the idea that Russia is either recklessly and indiscriminately hitting civilians or deliberately targeting them. It much more aligns with a deliberate and super careful attempt to avoid hitting civilians, even well beyond the strict rules of the Law of Conflict (IHL).
I also understand Ukrainian units that are not the proper army, i.e the Nazi ones, are unabashedly using civilian areas as command centers and other military uses, which is a war crime. So it's possible that even the relatively low numbers of civilians found so far may have been even lower if these guys cared about rules of IHL like normal, professional militaries do.
