“Russian lives matter also!” he wrote on Instagram on Tuesday after Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s visit to Denmark, where he and Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, inspected the F-16s to be delivered to his country.

Sure. But when you’re fighting a war – and this is a war that Russia chose to initiate, not Ukraine, and which Russia could choose to terminate at any time – people are going to die.

I don’t think that anyone claimed that the deaths don’t matter.