Any system that involves (human or machine) data entry and doesn’t allow corrections is fundamentally broken to the point of unusability.
For the sake of auditability, there should be a remark stating the data was originally entered differently. Displaying the original data with a remark that it has been changed and is no longer valid is extremely stupid.
So do i. Russia escalated by invading. Russia escalated by killing civilians, targeting civilian infrastructure, kidnaping children, attacking nuclear power plants, attacking dams, attacking hospitals, (and many more times). And by using mines.
That doesn’t change the fact that an escalation of the weapons used by ukraine is an escalation. That’s what that word means! Russia escalated first, and many times after. They are the bad guys.
Ukraine using mines is an escalation. Arguing against that point simply means you refuse to understand the word “escalation”.