[Cronos]

Russia took "territory from Ukraine" in 2014 as you note - they took Crimea and de facto took the Donetsk People's republic and the Luhansk People's republic

That is the year by year breakdown of deaths in the Donbas attributed to miliary operations

or if you just limit this to civilian deaths by mine-related incidents

Russia TOOK this land, but it came back 8 years later for more

What guarantee is there that Russia will not take what it controls now and come back later for more?

[Jan_Sobieski]

The problem with Referendums and Elections is that pesky voters cannot always be counted on to side with La Revolution

[MNDude]

“What guarantee is there that Russia will not take what it controls now and come back later for more?”

Let them. Not our problem

[spokeshave]

The people including military age are not fleeing Russia they are fleeing from Zelensky .....as they don’t want to be fed into a meat grinder.