The armed insurrection was made up of people who, among other things, used a 9K37 “Buk” surface-to-air missile launcher (conveniently on loan from Russia) to kill hundreds of people traveling overhead in a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet.
Not sure where you’re going with that Machete accusation.
Combating an armed insurrection sponsored by your powerful neighbor is not ethnic cleansing.
Is Ukraine being sanctioned by anyone? Did they start a war of aggression? Are they bombing shopping malls, abducting children, and denying Russia’s right to even exist?
Has Ukraine been terrorizing and occupying its neighbors for decades, driving them into the arms of NATO?
Fuck off with your both-sidesing.
On the off chance you are being genuine here: they ignored the sanctions on Russia by supplying them with Shahed drones. Which have been terrorizing Ukraine almost daily.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. That 14,300 casualties figure you’re likely alluding to includes 6,500 Russian-sponsored separatist fighters, 4,400 Ukrainian (!) soldiers, and 3,404 civilian victims on both sides of the conflict. The three hundred people killed in the separatist shootdown of MH17 are included in the latter figure.
Both the OSCE and the International Criminal Court have investigated Russia’s claims of Ukraine’s alleged genocide in the Donbas and come to the conclusion that there is no such thing.
On the contrary, Vladimir Putin (like Benjamín Netanyahu) is being sought by the ICC as a war criminal.
If you were to stop regurgitating state propaganda and listen to actual genocide scholars, UN institutions, and the ICC you would have to admit that it looks very much like Russia has always been using these allegations of genocide against Russian people to prepare an illegal occupation of Ukraine and to mask its own genocidal activities.
That’s all the enlightenment I can provide to you and your ilk; you are now going on my block list. Have a great life.