Expectable to be honest (as an eastern slav myself)

Yes, but the Kremlin is not a kindergarten, but an imperial symbol, so once we can and don’t need the firepower elsewhere, we would totally maybe collapse a part of it at least, maybe the wall part where moscow rulers do their New Years address. Leave a fat, gaping hole, you know.

Also we are hitting civilian/mixed-use energy infrastructure in russia now, too. So Belgorod (Bilhorod) feels connected to its ancestoral homeland :D (I am sure there is a reason, the 1918 border claim reference, however real it was back then, is a joke)

Oh we would level it alright, don’t think we’re some noble people, we’re human just like everyone else :D

They already have. Rosgvardiya took very heavy losses in the advance on Kyiv in 2022.

The newsworthy bit would have been the fact that some media outlets spread this under the headline “russia will withdraw troops as well”, missing the point that Rosgvardia is militarised “internal army”, mechanised and equipped with artillery etc. Rosgvardia was among the troops marching on Kyiv in 2022. russia definitely wouldn’t agree to ukrainian national guard staying in the area, though …