Considering that Russia has invaded Ukraine why would you think comments about erradication are just "chest beating"

I guess what I'm saying is why are you interpreting their words that way when they started a war?

Bucha is ethnic eradication. Irpen is ethnic eradication. Prigozhin saying that they have "eradicated most of the active male population of Ukraine and therefore achieved the goals of the war" is a straight up confession.

Just because russia's strategy is ethnic eradication through assimilation does not make it less ethnic eradication.

Pretending that it's not is lying.