Let me rephrase it then : “in order to not bomb your civilian ass, we need to know where the Ukrainian armed forces are located”. Even if the Ukrainian army was using their own civilians as meat shields that wouldn’t make much sense because the Russians would still have to bomb civilians in order to bomb the army… So the only explanation is that they’re basically saying “rat on your army, or else” here.
I may be wrong here but I think that just like sky diving vs BASE jumping, you can actually just do it from a plane, which sounds like it would be a lot less dangerous