Bullshit
The war started with the suppression of Russian ethnics almost ten years ago
This is our war
Uke blood
Nah,
there was no “suppression”. Russian BS pretext.
the ethnic Russians and Russian speakers have not been oppressed. -- this is provable in terms of raw numbers -- the refugees who fled to Poland, Romania etc. were overwhelmingly Russian-speakers from the east. Why did these "Russian ethnics" run to Poland/Romania/the west instead of to Russia?
Then in terms of personal experience - the people we helped were Russian speakers from the eastern oblasts - they were adamant that they didn't need “saving” or “rescuing” as they never felt oppressed in any way. AND, they couldn’t understand the fact that – if they’re the ones that needed saving – why it is their cities and regions which are being completely destroyed.
Some admitted that they felt an affinity with Russia before 2014, that was weakened, but after the Russian invasion of 2022, they identify as Ukrainians and shun anything Muscowite - some even shifted to speaking (bad) Ukrainian - not out of persecution, but out of disgust for Russia's actions
The war in Ukraine that started in 2014 was started by Russian FSB agent Igor Strelkov-Girkin who openly confirmed that fact several times.