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[After the 2014 coup regime, infested with neo-Nazis, launched a campaign of terror against Russian-speaking Donbas, which accounted for a third of Ukraine’s population, the pogrom-like burning to death of ethnic Russians and others in Odessa reawakened memories of Nazi extermination squads in Ukraine during World War II.]

8 years passed between Yanukovich’s flight from impeachment in 2014 to Putin’s invasion in 2022. In that time, about 14,000 people, including 3,000 civilians, died on both sides as Putin attempted to expand his foothold in Ukraine, and Ukraine attempted to thwart Putin’s efforts and recover lost territory.

For both sides, these skirmishes might be seen as a warm-up for the full-scale Russian invasion to come. It was an opportunity to refine tactics, find out what worked and what didn’t, get men blooded and working in cohesive groups that effective military units needed. For Ukraine, draftees and reservists got a realistic workout that the traditional annual call-ups normally wasted in drudgery. The rapid response of experienced draftees and reservists in the first days of Russia’s invasion, despite being outgunned, helped prevent the fall of Kiev and Kharkov.

The run-up to the Holocaust lasted 8 years, starting in 1933. By 1941, about 1m people lay dead, far from combat zones. From 1941 to 1945, an additional 11m people were killed, including 6m Jews.

No Jews have been systematically murdered in Ukraine starting with Russia’s small scale invasion in 2014. Even today, over 3 years into Ukraine’s invasion, no Jews have been targeted by Ukraine. The only targeting of Jews has been by Russia, which calls Zelensky a Nazi, and demands that a Jewish leader elected by the biggest margin in Ukrainian history, whose leading opponent, Poroshenko, was also believed to have Jewish blood, be removed from power.