[DesertRhino]

Everything would have been fine had they not started the ethnic cleansing, artillery and murders in the Donbass.
The coup insisted that the Russian language and culture in the east had to be purged and destroyed.

And now they are paying the price for their nazi inspired evil.

[caww]

.....”The coup insisted that the Russian language and culture in the east had to be purged and destroyed”......

US/Nato wanted Donbass - rich resources there also that Kiev wants.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Everything would have been fine had they not started the ethnic cleansing, artillery and murders in the Donbass.

Which, of course, no independent observer in the area supports. The OSCE in fact reported the opposite--it was Russia attacking Ukraine with impunity for years.

But that doesn't stop DesertRhino from repeating the lie for the 100th time or so.

[Cronos]

DesertRhino Everything would have been fine had they not started the ethnic cleansing, artillery and murders in the Donbass.

You do realize that the ethnic cleansing was done by Putin's Russia, right?

Look at the deaths since 2014

Last year we housed Ukrainian refugees who came from the area around Kyiv

They were and are Russian speakers - just like Zelenskyy

They come from a Russian speaking area of Ukraine, they spoke Russian at home. Naturally, they felt no persecution at all, because Ukraine does not persecute people because of the language they speak. They all said, that persecution of Russian speakers in Ukraine is absolute BS, nobody is being persecuted for speaking Russian.

Russian occupied territory, on the other hand, is very different. We have evidence from people, who were thrown in concentration camps for saying a word of Ukrainian. People were killed for having a Ukrainian flag.

And last, but certainly not least, the Russians in occupied territories of Ukraine, in a very Nazi fashion, burned all the books in Ukrainian. Yes, they burned books in Ukrainian on a number of occasions.

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Next, look at the 14,000 killed in the Donbas conflict from 2014 to Feb 2022 -- civilians numbers 3,500 and evenly distributed on both sides of the conflict

25% of civilians killed were due to separatist land mines

Go back and check the veracity of the russian sites you are reading