True. The Russians saved the ethnic Russian population in Ukraine from genocide.
Contemporary reports from independent news organizations said that the Russophone population in eastern Ukraine and Crimea was safe and happy until the "green men" showed up in 2014. Now the region is suffering ethnic cleansing, deporting non-Russophones by the tens of thousands into the interior of the Federation., denying medical care to anyone who has a Ukrainian passport, etc. Putin making his fantasy come true at the point of a gun.