Regarding your second point, here is an article that lays out the provocation by the west.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/nato-learns-nothing-forgets-nothing/5789564
I don’t think this is the fix you were looking for.
Mariupol had a populace of around 450,000 people before
this war.
Large portions of it stand in ruins today. Report say there
are about 100,000 people left there.
I was informed that the people of Mariupol wanted Russia to
come in. I find that rather laughable, considering.
Russia’s captured territory is identical to the AZOV
natural gas preserves. It’s now capturing the major oil
preserves of the Ukraine.
What has that to do with past grievances?
This hasn’t solved a single thing, other than to give
Russia more natural resources, which I submit you folks
have totally run from as a reason.
If Russia is there to save people who love it, it has a
rather poor way of doing it. Destroy their cities, inflict
as much pain and suffering as it can, while people run
away leaving their life’s belongings in the rear view.