I don’t believe Russia is committing genocide in the areas they’re occupying.
Kidnapping and relocating children to raise them Russian is genocide. Forcibly relocating Ukrainians to replace them with Russians is a genocide. You can choose not to believe that, but it is happening.
Removing civilians from a warzone is good actually. If they’re actually preventing them from returning while Russians are allowed to return, that would be genocide, but given that they’re being issued Russian citizenship, which allows them to come and go freely, it doesn’t seem like Russia is doing that.
It remains to be seen if they’re going to copy Israel’s playbook and deny Ukrainians who fled before the invasion the right to return, which would be a form of ethnic cleansing.
Kidnapping and relocating children to raise them Russian is genocide. Forcibly relocating Ukrainians to replace them with Russians is a genocide. You can choose not to believe that, but it is happening.
Removing civilians from a warzone is good actually. If they’re actually preventing them from returning while Russians are allowed to return, that would be genocide, but given that they’re being issued Russian citizenship, which allows them to come and go freely, it doesn’t seem like Russia is doing that.
It remains to be seen if they’re going to copy Israel’s playbook and deny Ukrainians who fled before the invasion the right to return, which would be a form of ethnic cleansing.