“Putin’s Russia was the first to send troops and artillery shells across an international border. Putin launched this war.”
That’s not quite true...the globalists, led by the CIA, overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine in 2014 that had been more sympathetic to Moscow rather than the globalists. That was the start of this conflict.
Maybe in a cheap action movie but not in real life. The protests were a popular response to Yanukovych bowing to Russian pressure and reversing himself on support for the EU economic agreement. Yanukovych fled the country in response to these protests; he was not overthrown by the CIA. The recent protests by the Ukrainians over changes in the anti-corruption laws shows that they are independent agents, not brainless tools of foreign puppet masters. So if you want to know the start of this conflict, it was Moscow's subversion of Yanukovich.