Ok, I’ll take you at face value and not asume ill intent/trolling:

I get it, it’s easy to get dragged down into the mud in a dirty fight (mud being killing civilians indiscriminately) and it would damage the “good guy” image that Ukraine has developed.

But I don’t believe the restraint Ukraine has shown until now is purely for show, to maintain a public image. The kind of restraint they show every day is a mark of a society willing to suffer just to be the better person. And I definitely don’t think that bombing empty government buildings at night with minimal collateral damage is a show of them willing to get dirty after a year and a half of taking shit from Russia in the face.

And I mean piles and piles of shit from Russia, where probably less than 10% of missiles/drones yeeted at Ukraine had actual military targets, and all the rest happily hit residential buildings to the applause of the Russian public.

Lastly, I do find it ironic that countries like the US to “demand” minimal collateral damage from Ukraine to Russian civilians after the literal hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afgani civilians they have killed in the last couple of decades.

So fuck the US for that, fuck Russia for what they’re doing now, and deep admiration to Ukraine for actually sticking to the values that we (west) say we represent.