>But the difference is that on the Ukrainian side atrocities are the exception, while on the Russian side they're standard operating procedure.
False, not from what I've seen.
Multiple reporting since the start of the war has shown that war crimes are far worse coming from the Russian side.
Have you seen the videos of POWs exchanges where the Ukrainian exchanges look like they're coming out of a concentration camp? Did you miss the widescale slaughter of civilians in places like Bucha?
There's no question that the level of warcrimes is disproportionately coming from the Russian side.
>I mean there's literally videos of Russians shooting their own soldiers for the crime of retreating from certain death in human wave assaults.
True
Have you seen the same from Ukrainians? If not, then in that aspect at least, one side is acting worse.
>You just did.
"I know you are but what am I." The level of discourse and comprehension I'd expect from someone with an opinion as uninformed as your own.
Except in your case I actually justified it.
War is nasty, folks will do nasty stuff. It's not hard to find the occasional video of war crimes to amplify. It's really hard to get a good sense of the level of war crimes on both sides just by cruising social media.
Also note that Russia has been caught repeatedly manufacturing evidence of war crimes. The lead up to the war had them staging fake atrocities, not to mention their repeated attempts to blame Ukraine for their own atrocities. I'd have extremely low confidence that a video of Ukrainian atrocities coming from a pro-Russia source is actually what it claims to be.