I can sort of understand being pro-Ukraine in this war given you probably don't know the context from before 2022 and have been thoroughly propagandized by western media portraying these fascists as freedom fighters.

But calling this war a genocide? I genuinely don't understand how anyone could come to that conclusion while we're watching an actual genocide unfold in Palestine. Russia could have immediately and relentlessly terror bombed Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure back into the stone age like the US and NATO typically do. But they didn't. Clearly they intend for Ukrainians to still exist at the end of this. In order to call this a genocide, you'd need to say essentially every war ever fought was also a genocide.

There is no racial prejudice or settler designs in Russia's motivation here. They've made themselves very clear since the fall of the Soviet Union that Ukraine joining NATO is their red line. But even after the US orchestrated the 2014 Maidan coup to install a fascist, rabidly anti-Russian government, even after Ukraine violated the Minsk agreements by continuing to ethnically cleanse Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine, Russia still attempted diplomacy until there were no other options left when NATO had Ukraine shut down all talk of peace.

You can't goad someone into a war for literal decades and then start crying when, on their own terms rather than yours, they join the existing civil war on the side of the people you are trying to erase.