In 2014 Crimea voted in a referendum for independence and it passed with 95%. Donetsk and Lugansk voted for independence through military force. They don't want to be part of Ukraine either.
Are they not entitled to freedom?
We bombed Serbia so that Kosovo could achieve the same goals as these people are asking for.
The Kremlin's demands are perfectly reasonable. Zelenski should accept them and end the bloodshed and the risk of world-wide escalation (except his Western puppet masters won't let him).
The minute you invade your demands become unreasonable.
“ Are they not entitled to freedom?”
So if California wants to break away we should let them ? (Although part of me says yes)