The bombing is described as having “involved firing more than 100 munitions at over 70 targets,” which is a significant amount even if it killed no one.

Vijay Prashad:

Such texts are boring not because of their content but because of how they are written. The style of these texts is almost intended to prevent the reader from getting anything out of them. It’s believed that just by publishing these manuals and reports they meet a certain standard of democracy. But what this kind of writing does is to turn people away from reading. Such writing is, therefore, antidemocratic.

Un Bits de Tim as they say in Quebec

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usaid#Political_operations_abroad

The Carter Center (cited by that BBC piece) is funded by various western governments including the US, as well as CIA-affiliated regime-change orgs like the National Endowment for Democracy. They are not a neutral party.

The “pro-Kremlin” smear is similarly questionable as it is promoted by the same groups.