“Have you intentionally forgotten things like the Khorsun Massacre, for instance?”
Even if there were deaths - and I say “if” - there was no “massacre”. Also, are you really going to say that Ukrainian nationalists beating up Russian nationalists who just demonstrated against the Ukrainians in Kiev shows any sort of pattern other than the hatred that the Russians and Ukrainians have for each other. Russians have done that sort of thing to Ukrainians FOR CENTURIES.
“Even if there were deaths - and I say “if” - there was no “massacre”.”
THIS is why you (and Kiev’s propaganda) have no credibility.
Anywhere from 8-36 Ethnic Russians were KILLED at Korsun, returning from the anti-Maidan rallies in Kiev. That is simply undeniable.
Plenty of video of it out there, as the Right Sector thugs that did it didn’t care who filmed it. This is just one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqX51CX3JPU
Putin acknowledged that it was this incident that forced him to set the plans in motion to retake Crimea.
Up until that point, the Russians thought everything could be contained in Kiev.
Ethnicity Ukrainian did not exist untill 1922 when Bolsheviks had created Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on territory of former Russian Empire. Before that where known 4 closely related Russian ethnicity - Great Russians, Bielorussians, Little Russians and Ruthenians. Ukraine in many Slavik languages has meaning of borderland of no specific country. In Russian towns suburb is named okraine.