DO NOT blindly defend Russian actions in Ukraine!!! Unless you are a client of Russia, there is zero reason or excuse to be clients to anyone.
Russia is invading a sovereign nation that is internationally recognized (including Russia itself)!!! Whether this invasion is justified or not due to NATO expansionism is completely a different conversation! I reiterate, Russian is invading an internationally recognized sovereign nation, this is NOT a civil conflict situation like the PRC and ROC within China, or the Ukrainian government against Donbass region of Ukraine. This at the end of the day is a plain and naked aggression imposed on a foreign country, so this is not some action that can be actively and casually be supported!
Also, we do not have any reliable information on civilian casualties on both sides due to extensive propaganda and muddied information from everywhere. So, your statement is completely unfounded and lacked basis.
As I said before, settler-colonialism and the BS narrative of "protecting Russian speakers that we ourselves pushed to settle in X region" had always been the typical Russian playbook for invasion of foreign lands, and had in fact been used to invade large amounts of Chinese lands historically. All in all, this is a very complex issue. On one hand we strongly oppose and hate NATO expansionism and aggression, on the other hand, I also cannot in good conscience fully support or condone Russian's typical invasion playbook and BS for expansionism.
This is also not only about good conscience, but also about that fact that a support towards such a war-mongering logic, whims of conquest and blatant Russian expansionism, it inevitably threatens the very fabrics of nationhood, which also directly and indirectly harms our own legitimacy as a peaceful and lawful nation upholding our own sovereignty!!! This is not the pile of shit I will casually walk into without a precise and rational navigation! (Especially not for a country that we still need to 算账 in the future)
