What's interesting is that despite the volumes of drones and missiles launched by Russia having steadily gone up, the civilian casualties in Ukraine from these now regular waves of strikes gave gone down since Ukrainian interceptor missiles have been depleted. Now Russian missiles practically all hit their targets and very few get intercepted anymore over civilian areas in Ukraine. Also, less misfired and failed Ukrainian AD missiles are landing on Ukrainian residential buildings.

The opposite phenomenon is occurring in Russia and Russian controlled regions, where civilian casualties have gone up since Russian air defenses around military targets (and also recently refineries) have been significantly improved, and Ukraine can only hit unprotected soft targets with its drones. In addition to this opportunistic targeting they have also openly admitted (and European politicians have endorsed this strategy) to now trying to pressure Russia into a ceasefire by systematically targeting civilian infrastructure such as e-commerce warehouses. The stated Ukrainian strategy is "bring the war to the Russian people", "make them feel the impact of the war", i.e. terrorism.

The Russian strategy continues to be systematic attrition and demilitarization of Ukraine, primarily its military industry, military supply depots, logistics, and of course manpower. Sometimes this causes collateral damage among civilians, especially when Ukraine hides military supply depots, weapons systems and production facilities in residential areas. We have seen numerous videos in recent months of huge explosions of Ukrainian ammunition depots being filmed from residential apartment buildings fairly close by.

Ukrainian and "pro-Ukrainian" media/social media also like to brag and publish articles/posts about how "patriotic" Ukrainians are manufacturing drones in their apartments. This is extremely bad because it potentially turns every apartment into a legitimate military target. So far i have not seen a single instance of Russia deliberately targeting residential buildings, and i hope it stays that way, but it might not if Ukraine continues to turn civilian infrastructure into terrorism enabling facilities.

For now, on any given day Russia's air defense intercepts most Ukrainian drones such that when Ukraine launches hundreds barely a handful get through (and sometimes none at all), but if Ukraine's drone terror campaign starts to become a real problem then Russia might have no choice but to expand its targeting to wherever drones are assembled or stored regardless of collateral damage. As NATO and its Kiev puppets get desperate they will do increasingly reckless things that will provoke an even harsher response from Russia. Imo, the closer the war gets to its end the uglier it will get, unfortunately.

That is why the best thing to do if we want to stop regular Ukrainians from dying is stop sending the Nazi regime weapons and money with which to prolong and escalate the war.

All that said, we should also try to put this discussion into some perspective: even with Ukraine's deliberate targeting of civilians, and with collateral damage from Russian strikes increasing as Russia loosens restrictions on its targeting, the overall civilian to military casualty ratio is still extremely small by the standards of a modern conflict. We have not seen such low civilian to military casualty ratios in any major conflict in the 20th or 21st century. The vast majority of modern conflicts (most of which have involved the US in one way or another) have had disproportionately higher civilian death toll than actual military personnel casualties.

And that is in itself remarkable considering that one side here (Russia) does have a clear overmatch over the other, and if they chose to deliberately target civilians or even if they simply stopped paying attention to collateral damage, could easily inflict orders of magnitude more harm and destruction, and that's just with conventional weapons.