Nobody interested in the Russia-Ukraine conflict?

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I explained why I didn't.

GTFO!

^ White privilege. If Afghans tried to lunge like that at American troops checking a village door to door they'd be bagging the whole family.

Potentially one aspect, yes.. but there's also the fact that it seems a lot of Russian soldiers don't even want to be there in the first place.. they weren't told where they were going or what the mission was and don't agree with it - so of course they're not all trigger happy trying to gun down civilians. Could have just been looking for soldiers.

Also, besides looking like a similar ethnicity to the soldiers, the other factor in play may just be respect for elders.. kinda hard to gun down children and grandparents. Easier to shoot a resistance fighter that's 18-60 years old and has a gun pointed back at you.

I saw that the other day, notice the fourth soldier peeking in and then he wants no part of it.
Also as you get older ,you get more fearless, death is already a few steps behind you.
I think people in Eastern Europe still honor their elderly and have respect for them.
Here we just stick them in nursing homes and forget them.

Not just skin color.
They speak the same language and have no significant cultural barriers between them.

There's a family story of my half-Russian great grandmother: when Red Army was entering Warsaw, the soldiers were looting and raping - and she had two daughters, one 16 (I think), the other 23.
The story is, when soldats came at their door, my great-grandmother "welcame" them with a stream of perfect Russian profanities... they apologized and went away.
Everyone was "white" there - Russians, Poles, Germans. In East Europe, ethnicity is mainly about language, not ancestry.

There appear to be no developments to this story aside from the original source. Seems to be in fact a hoax.

I meant that they don't see each other as "less than human", which wasn't always the case in other warzones.

In most wars I know of, the fighting sides are predominantly of the same skin color, typical to the locality.
Sure, there are exceptions, mostly US sending troops overseas.
Even then, however, they are usually to support one of the local sides in the conflict.

ED: Ok, I found one exception. Israel.

Heh yes, that's a depressingly common occurrence on many technical forums I frequent.
It's like people forget they're using a connection to probably the most important invention after the wheel - well, certainly since sliced bread - which provides answers, further knowledge (and some crap) with practically no effort at all.

Quoting some of that information without including a link to it is lazy and can speak volumes of the poster's poor engagement with, and low opinions of, their audience.

Absolutely...

This is, of course, and as you frequently point out to others, "just your opinion".

Please provide a link anyway - it gives others the opportunity to verify what you post is accurate and the opportunity of verifying it in-situ, along with finding other related information near the link for themselves.

KCTV news this morning approx. 8 am . Broadcast a image of a Russian news media broadcaster . In Russian with a woman that entered the screen behind the broadcaster. Moving across the screen , with a large cardboard printed sign. In bold print that Started with the words in English “ End the War in Ukraine”. Then following smaller letters were all in Russian , except the bottom line .
What about this incident being broadcast in the United States is Wrong ? Think about this sign? Why in the World would another broadcaster write this in English on a Russian news broadcast ? And how come none of the Russian media staff
Did not stop this woman ? . Do all Russians speak English ?

These images were broadcast twice in a 2 hour period .
It is offensive to think that this might not strike someone as being a product of a US propaganda machine ?
It seems really sad that our media propaganda machine. Considers the US public as being that ignorant.
This does cause me to wonder , how much of the info we are being fed,by the media empires here is remotely true.

Please understand that I am in No way pro-Russia , but , I am definitely anti- propaganda !

Russian TV news was broadcast life.
The woman working in the same station entered there with her anti-war cardboard.
She was visible for only a few seconds, before the operators changed visual feed to remove her.
Then, she was arrested.

The scene was recorded by someone and re-transmitted all over the West.
Most Russians speak enough of English to write "no war" or something like this on a sign.

The event as broadcast:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60749279

Some links (i.e., Fullerton Informer, The Onion, The Verge, YouTube, et cetera) are automatic giveaways that the posted information given is likely to be bogus.

The Onion is satire and there's coverage on YouTube that's more credible than anything on TV.