The predominately ethnic Russians of the Donbas waited for 8 years for Russia to arrive and liberate them from the murderous shelling of civilians by Kiev-ordered artillery.
Those people are not “conquered” or “invaded.” They are happily free of the mass killing by the Zelensky-controlled murderers. They voted for autonomy from Kiev years ago before this fighting and Kiev could never accept those in Donbas wanted NOTHING to do with tyrants in Kiev.
Present day Ukraine is not a unified people as so many falsely believe. The western part of Ukraine has a strongly Polish ethnic background. There are also strong elements of Hungarian and Romanian cultures.
You refuse to face facts and instead simply buy into Moscow propaganda. Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine are not ethnic Russians. Thousands of patriotic Ukrainians from the Donbas are fighting bravely to liberate their hometowns from from criminal Russians, Mohammedans, and Buryats. Moscow has committed countless war crimes since their 2014 invasion, They fly the hammer and sickle flag and push their Bolshevik nostalgia. The Ukrainian army has proven itself brave, intrepid, and man for man far superior to the Russian soldiers.
“Present day Ukraine is not a unified people as so many falsely believe.”
Don’t fool yourself, they know it’s an ARTIFICIAL NATION, pieced together from lands that belonged to others. But with the goal of weakening and then dismembering Russia, it does well to serve that purpose.