That's just the places the Russians get in to or are close to doing so for an extended time. (Bakhmut)
It's also interesting to compare the Pooty tools' accounts of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine with the UN observers' numbers, from 2014-2021. You see numbers here on FR like 14,000 pro-Russians slaughtered. The UN's numbers for (total fatalities on both sides combined) were much, much lower. In some recent years they were in the teens or single digits.
What’s more, the DNR ombudsman (Russian agency operating out of the same Donetsk building as the FSB!) has published monthly reports and annual reports which confirmed that by the end of 2020 the casualties IT documented were in the low double digits.
The January 2022 month had fewer than casualties documented, and all three of them were combatants.
Even the separatists’ own auditors admitted that any “genocide” ended about 4 years ago and all that was left was militants on both sides sporadically attacking each other.
2 weeks after the January stats were published, Pushilin flogged the narrative of ongoing genocide, the Kremlin knew it was a lie but ran with it, and western useful idiots swallowed it.