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Pretty sure they started with themselves (even if you don't count Donbass bombings since 2014). I'm sure you have seen a video from last year of a missile striking the facade of an apartment building and shearing off a chunk of it. Back then, all media and internet screeched how it was Russian X-101 - which is easily disproven by taking a look at X-101's payload and the actual photos of things struck by it. Let's just say it's significantly higher.
The actual culprit was a Ukrainian S-300 missile sent to intercept the aforementioned airstrike, and misfiring. It struck the apartment building, because AFU has been positioning their artillery (and AA batteries) between, inside and on top of civilian buildings
Wait, can you give me a source on that
I may have mixed up the missiles, so apologies for that. However:
Here's a photo from when an X-22 missile got intercepted and fell on a residential building. Note the level of destruction and keep in mind this was not a direct strike, but a partial detonation.
This is the result of a missile hit in Kiev, that was proclaimed by the media to be "Russians attacking residential buildings". Note the level of destruction.
As you can see, there's a pretty clear difference. Some links for reference:
X-55/101
X-22
S-300
Yeah, I've always wondered about this one. People seem to really underestimate the power of 500kg of high explosive. For reference, this is the explosion from a 250kg WW2 era bomb: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wwii-era-bomb-explodes-in-england-in-unplanned-detonation/