Nobody declared war ahead of the invasion of Ukraine. It is a universally outlawed illegal invasion mischaracterised as a war. Putin referred to it as a Special Military Operation. That’s a much less restricting label.
The false war label gives the world the impression that it should be considered as a war, with the conditions and rules of a war.
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