It’s borderline, but erring towards yes, especially due to the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.
I am somewhere around this opinion, but possibly leaning ever-so-slightly toward no. I am very hesitant to throw around the term "genocide," as I think it should retain a strikingly serious connotation that should not apply to too many different types of situations. I will also freely admit to not being an expert on the Russia/Ukraine war, but from what I have seen there have more been a number of more generic war crimes than specific genocide. I am sympathetic to the argument that trying to erase (and/or deny) Ukrainian ethnic identity starts going down that path, but I am not sure the English "genocided" the Irish through forced assimilation, so it is a delicate determination of where to start using the term.
I will say, though, that we might uncover elements of (more clear) genocide in the years to come ... pretty common pattern in history.
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