Believe me, I don’t want any russian civilians hit with missiles either, and the people that say they do either overexaggerate their emotional response or are pro-russian trolls arguing in bad faith. We’ve gotta be better than the fuckwads on the other side playing point and click adventure with our cities.
“Wizard” and “Magus” are both terms that could be traced to just meaning “a wise person” or “a person with knowledge”. Knowledge is power, and sufficient amount of power can be perceived as supernatural.
After all, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.