No problem. Just to clarify my own position, after reading this,
Merely reporting that this war is a Russian invasion which has been condemned at the UN and continues to be waged in defiance of the UN international court immediately casts you in the anti-Russian camp.
I'll just say, for me, there's no question Russia's war is illegal as far as a breach of the Law of War (Use of Force). My criticism/attitude toward the West isn't based on my thinking that
that's in question, but rather on realpolitik or International Relations (not Law).
Use of Force and International Humanitarian Law are two separate systems of Law. One prescribes when it's lawful/unlawful for a state to launch war, defend itself with war, etc. To me, there's no question Russia is guilty as far as this law is concerned for the simple reason it wasn't attacked first, nor threatened with an imminent attack so that it could've legitimately launched the war first to defend itself.
The other Law is about the conduct of the war itself, once launched (IHL) and its aim is mainly to shield civilian targets (people/places, including those there to help or report) from war and POWs from inhumane treatment. It's in this second Law that for me there remain questions to be answered with further info, not the first. As far as I understand Russia is in breach of the Rule prohibiting launching war against another country.
Now, about the videos, I can't
Those images don't leave my head for a while, once I've seen them, and yet there's no positive contribution I could make to those experiencing whatever I've seen. I'd just be tormented, and that's it.
I'll now hopefully avoid responding until at least the UN comes up with a report. As I said before, I'm all for the ICC and similar bringing to book these individuals and Russia being sued at the ICJ for them, if they happened. They will obviously be sued for launching the war itself, in any case. Let's hope they actually obey the court once it has determined their responsibility like European states tend to do, and not be rebellious like the US, China, and even our own .ke (recently) have been.