We knew Russia's invasion of Ukraine would be savage before it was even launched. Western intelligence sources anticipated that the Russians would enter Ukraine with “kill lists” of potential sources of trouble, who were to be rounded up and dealt with in order to render the country easier to rule. Regrettably, this has come to pass. This was the plan even when the Russians thought their invasion would last just a few days. When the war began, and things started to go wrong for Russia, the viciousness found other outlets.  Points of resistance were bombed to pieces. Civilian targets across Ukraine were hit with bombs and missiles. Civilians were deported deep into Russia through a network of depersonalising “filtration camps”. When Russians later retreated from their occupation, advancing Ukrainian forces met evidence of mass executions in their wake. The mass graves in Bucha, near the Ukrainian capital, made calling Russia's war a genocide more common and, according to many, more obvi...