“All the Ukrainians are asking of the Russians is that they go home.”
Ethnic Russians have called the area home since Russia snatched the areas from the Turks.
In 1823, President Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine.
When Communists seized Cuba, President Kennedy launched the Bay of Pigs operation.
Nations like their “space”.
“Ethnic Russians” are Ukrainians. Zelensky is a Russian speaker.
Other than Crimea, the Russians are a minority in those territories. They are not a super-race that has the right to force the Ukrainian majority to be part of Russia because a minority of Russians live there. They should be allowed to live in those territories in peace, but as the minority alongside the Ukrainian majority in a united Ukraine. Russia is over-reaching in trying to annex those territories.