If you actually knew what was going on, you wouldn't need to ask silly questions.
Ukraine had passed laws prohibiting the teaching, or even the use, of the Russian language being spoken in public. Since 2014, the Nazi element in Ukraine had been executing a reign of terror upon Russian speaking Ukrainians.
The western nations refused to intervene , and were in fact arming and training the Nazi element to attack the Russian speaking Ukrainians.
“Since 2014, the Nazi element in Ukraine had been executing a reign of terror upon Russian speaking Ukrainians.”
It seems many here have NO PROBLEM with that (or deny it ever happened), since they Russians (yuck) after all.
Tit for Tat. The Russians have on numerous occasions prohibited the Ukrainian language and teaching it. The entire reason for the mass moving of Russian speakers into Ukraine was to destroy and Ukrainian identity. The Ukrainians saw this as a threat and took appropriate action.
It used to be that anyone immigrating to the United States had to learn English. I knew someone born to Central American parents who settled in California. He was in high school and spoke barely a word of English. The school system insisted on teaching him in Spanish. When the school’s resource officer told him if he got into one more fight, they’d send him to reform school he quit and went to work for a Cuban plumber. The Cuban would not allow him to say one word in Spanish. Whatever he needed the Cuban would sit with him and force him to ask it in English. His gratitude to the Cuban was boundless. He’s now running his own plumbing business. Controlling what language someone speaks is how that government builds or destroys a culture. Ukraine is trying to build their own culture, not Russia’s. If it’s in Ukraine than speak Ukrainian. Just as if it’s in the US, then speak English. Or rather it should be.
There is always more than one side to any issue.