The region of Ukraine has been defined as an independent state for 20 years. For a thousand years before that, it belonged to Russia (except for Galicia, which belonged, and belongs, to Central Europe).
It is profoundly unconservative to support a recent innovation such as a “free Ukraine”.
We are witnessing the emergence of a new type of conservative. The new conservative cares not about property rights, the rule of law, free and fair elections, popular sovereignty, or limited constitutional government. The new conservative worships the effective use of power without regard for the how and why it is used. It’s a strange sort of bromance for flabby Putin.