“The Ossetians and Abkhazians he intervened in Georgia for are not even Russian, he just gave them Russian passports and made them Russian citizens.”
Most of Russians and russophones in Easter Ukraine have also Russian passeports. Crimea and Odessa are 100% Russian. It was “offered” symbolically by Krustchev to Ukraine in 1954, but remained Russian thru and thru.
Same thing with the industrial center Donetsk, whic produces 25% of Ukraine income.
A total of 15 millions in Ukraine - one third of the population - are Russian speaking ortodox.
If Russians did not want the Bolsheviks to give away the Crimea, then maybe they shouldn’t have murdered their Tzar. Maybe men like Putin and his NKVD father shouldn’t have helped those Bolshevik animals destroy their own nation.