You can count all the civilians killed by any sort of active hostilities in the entire 2021 on your hands (if not just 1 hand) and that's all those killed on both sides and by both sides. Similar for 2020, 2019, 2018, and each of these years it was significantly fewer and fewer since the would-be final ceasefire had began back in February 2015. (Which was after several thousand died, in less than 1 year and not any "years".) And 2017 and 2016 and even 2015 too for that matter, each year less and less of any sort of conflict since 2014.
By 2021, when Putin decided to attack, practically all was happening was soldiers on both sides occasionally sniping each other in their respective trenches. Including Putin's very own FSB snipers: https://twitter.com/ralee85/status/1258711127166509058
You can count all the civilians killed by any sort of active hostilities in the entire 2021 on your hands (if not just 1 hand) and that's all those killed on both sides and by both sides. Similar for 2020, 2019, 2018, and each of these years it was significantly fewer and fewer since the would-be final ceasefire had began back in February 2015. (Which was after several thousand died, in less than 1 year and not any "years".) And 2017 and 2016 and even 2015 too for that matter, each year less and less of any sort of conflict since 2014.
By 2021, when Putin decided to attack, practically all was happening was soldiers on both sides occasionally sniping each other in their respective trenches. Including Putin's very own FSB snipers: https://twitter.com/ralee85/status/1258711127166509058