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You can inflict mass casualities with convential means, case in point, the Dresden bombing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_Wa...), in the second world war.

Or starvation. Again. Russia killed 3.5 million Ukrainians that way, likely within the lifetime of your grandparents.

That’s an improper assumption. You can do a lot of harm with regular explosives

Given enough time, yes. But I'm pretty sure Putin doesn't have the luxury of this war lasting too long.

He'll want to force his adversaries on their knees within a week and considering the snail's pace at which the Russian military are gaining ground that doesn't seem likely.