The only sources that you’ve provided that claim genocide are opinion pieces, and none supply data that meets the UN defintion of Genocide, statements of genocidal intent and so on, without that any invasion of a sovereign country that includes mass civilian deaths is a genocide including the west’s invasions of Muslim majority countries in the past decades

My view is that state actions have to meet the UN defintion to be a genocide, if yours is looser and any killing of civilians of a certain ethnicity(if if committed by those of the same ethnicity) is a genocide in your eyes then that is a defensible position I respect, but do you apply the standard equally? i.e if you think Russia’s actions in Ukranine constitute a genocide, then you must also think the western collation’s(which included the US, UK, Ukraine and many other western countries) actions in Afghanistan and Iraq also constitute a genocide yes?

Are you aware that a third of Ukrainians are russian first language, and an even higher amount have some degree of Russian ancestry

This is the minority that was persecuted by the far right after the US backed maidan coup overthrew Ukranines’s democraticly elected government, including torture and the shelling of civilian infrastructure and residential areas by neo nazi such as Azov, tornado etc battalions this let to formation of self defence groups thst became the ‘Russian backed sepratists’ this conflict is more nuanced than portrayed in western corperate media, throwing hundreds of thousands more Ukrainians into the meat grinder for the benefit of the west does not infact benefit ukranie and the working people there, the opposite is the case,

So if we use your defintion both sides are guilty of a genocide(which is why I don’t find the loose defintion useful and why the UN sets out specific conditions to be meet)