Are you ready to apply the same standard to the people who work on war drones at google? (my guess, not)
There are international laws regulating war, and the fact is that Russia toke great pleasure into violating each single one of them. Systematically. Deliberately. All while telling lies and jokes to inflict the greatest pain possible to the population. It is an spectacle absolutely hideous.
And now they wonder why aren't attracting any international sympathy lately