Those kids seem awful grown up when they're firing their rifle at civilians though, or in a tank etc, it's only when the other side captures them, which is a stroke of luck given the other two options are death, that they look like small scared boys. At that point, a line was crossed, and for better or worse they may have to be the other side of the rifle or tank shell, it's shitty, but it's war, war is shitty, young and old kill and get killed.

Not to mention emotions are running high, I'd like to think of myself as a leftist peace lover, buttttt if I'm a Ukraine soldier, and my city just got bombed, and my mum just died in that, well shitttt that's bad news for the Russians in my way, and tbh, if they want to keep their insides in they can get the fuck out of my country.

If you don't want to fight, throw the rifle to the ground hands to air and come what may, whether that be desertion, enemy capture, or escape. If you fire a round, you're now strapped into this war.