@libertybele Speaking of 'innocents':
Bakhmut

Vovchansk

Chasiv Yar

Mariupol

Klishcheevka

Pokrovsk

Avdiyivka

Soledar

Still looking for the first Russian city to suffer anything even remotely similar to this. Still waiting for the first mass grave to be located and dug up in Russia. Still waiting to see the first hypersonic missile attack on a Russian school, hospital, or playground. Or those FPV drone videos where Russian civilians are hunted down on the streets by drone operating sadists. Watch four years of videos of average Russians talking about the 'Special Military Operation' [sic]. Every last one of them cheered this war on, stating that Ukrainians deserved to be wiped off the map. Even the video above, from Tuapse in 2022. Russians gathering in the street voicing their support of ridding the world of Ukrainian criminals, drug addicts, and nazis. Yet now a few drones strike oil targets with the entire city left intact, and they somehow can't come to terms with why this is happening. Innocents? There is only one side here that is innocent. And they currently have an invading army sitting on their soil committing atrocities against Ukrainian civilians day after day after day.
No, this isn't a 'both sides' situation. Russia alone is the aggressor. Russia alone is waging a war against a civilian population. Russia alone is committing genocide. And Russia alone can end this by withdrawing their troops from Ukraine.
And until that happens, Ukraine has two choices: 1) Continue to defend THEIR COUNTRY; 2) Cease to exist as a nation.
If the United States was faced with this choices, as an American, I know which choice I would make.