I would also flee the government that was bombing me with airstrikes and heavy arty...
If anything that the shootdown of MH17 and its aftermath should have demonstrated to you, it’s that both sides in this conflict are not morally equivalent.
One side shoots, loots and scoots, and the other side gathers up the remains and deals with the consequences.
One side are Russians invading another country to loot it, the other side are citizens of that country defending it.
The interlopers running back to Russia now are the immigrants who never assimilated and never intended to and invited in the invading Russian army while their Ukrainian neighbors were forced to flee.