“And again, go to the 4 regions/oblasts and ask the majority of those that voted to join Russia if Putin/Russia started the war/conflict.”
True, not sure how anyone living in a country where you cannot even keep your own bank account deposits has any reason to give Russia crap.
Meh, it’s largely perception driven and when the masses are incessantly inundated with pro-Ukrainian material day after day after day after day via the dominant Western/UK/US/EU/NATO propaganda ridden ‘yellow journalism’ media, it’s becomes not necessarily a “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it” scenario, it really becomes a ‘Who controls the news, controls the world’ scenario.