If they're heroes and Russia is the demon they say, then them taking that hit meant one less missile to shoot at a kindergarten. They wanted to give their own lives to save innocents, and that's exactly what happened.
If they were there to forge a new Reich on a foundation of a million slavic skulls, getting off of war crimes like so many Rhodesian adventurers, then the world is better for their idiotic deaths (and it's still 1 less missile to possibly hit a kindergarten).
If they're heroes and Russia is the demon they say, then them taking that hit meant one less missile to shoot at a kindergarten. They wanted to give their own lives to save innocents, and that's exactly what happened.
If they were there to forge a new Reich on a foundation of a million slavic skulls, getting off of war crimes like so many Rhodesian adventurers, then the world is better for their idiotic deaths (and it's still 1 less missile to possibly hit a kindergarten).