Not to defend him, but usually when we used 'Whites' in these context, it is to mock your own obsession and sense of superiority with the whiteness of your skin.
I mean, this war is very critical in a sense that it gave Europeans some sense of Reality.
Otherwise, you guys were increasingly acting like that, you were some sort of different species who lives in another planet, who could not comprehend 'Oh look, how savage and uncivilized these non whites are!'
Now, Russians are turned out to be like orcs who are killing, massacring and raping its own sister nation, it should be a harsh waking up from your sweet dream.
It is not like, Oh 'White people dying is not a problem'
More like, when brown people in middle east or black people in Africa dies it is because they are savage, ( i heard that argument with my own ears ) so no big deal.
The same logic is working here, just the other way around.