Define peace.
A foreign Empire implements a Color Revolution and overthrows the guy that 80+ percent of your area voted for. And installs the losers.
So you secede and declare yourself independent, and the country you left, along with the foreign Empire attacks you militarily for 8 years.
You try to negotiate peace, but it goes nowhere, and the Empire politicians later admit that the negotiations were just a pretext to rearm for a bigger attack.
At that point, the big country next door which you have a lot of ethnic ties, intervenes for its own reasons to create more defensible borders against the foreign Empire.
And, the foreign Empire which previously severed a province and created a new country, as well as invading and occupying and overthrowing two foreign governments, that Empire denounces you for annexing foreign territory, trying to overthrow a government, and violation of international law.
Did I miss anything ?
Oh yeah, the foreign Empire denounces you for using the exact same weapons and tactics that they used in their wars.
How many countries has Russia “interfered “ in, how many govts have they overthrown. Was/are there activities in Moldavia benevolent?
Was the “little green men” just an organic uprising to fight “injustice”? Were the referendum in the invaded oblasts free and fair(run by Russia, counted by Russia and under the gun)?
If Nazi germany had held “referendums” in occupied territories and the “vote” resulted in all these territories “joining” Germany should everyone said “well that’s it there was a vote “ time for peace?
We are not going to agree so take care and have a nice day