If “Russian” citizens are living in Ukraine, and they are suddenly afraid for their safety, maybe - just maybe - they’re living in the wrong place.
Ukraine has been under one form or another of Russian domination for a long time. The people there aren’t too happy with the prospect of that happening again, and are probably willing to go to war over it. And they don’t have a lot of love for Russian anything.
Hitler used the exact same pretext of German citizens living in the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia being “threatened” and sent in the troops in 1938.
Putin does NOT have the right to violate the sovereignty of an independent nation. If he is concerned for these “citizens” - he can request through diplomatic channels that they be protected and maybe even escorted back beyond the borders of Ukraine - and foot the bill for it too, if he’s so concerned.
Sort of like illegal Mexicans in this country. If they’re not here legally, they’re violating our laws, and have no business BEING here.
You are wasting your time, trying to reason with Putin’s fifth column here. You can always recognize them by the same talking points: Putin, Russia good, everything West - bad. They will not respond to reason, just keep repeating the talking points.