If the Zeepers show up, they’ll claim that EVERYTHING you just posted is BS, and you have to believe their (revised) version of history, which, in a nutshell is that Putin woke up in a bad mood in Feb. 2022 and thus decided to invade Ukraine. The West? Who us? Why we never had ANYTHING AT ALL to do with Ukraine, not thing! LOL.
History is laughing hysterically at that post!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26248275
https://www.cfr.org/timeline/ukraines-struggle-independence-russias-shadow
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9476/CBP-9476.pdf
I thought he was wanting to reconstitute the old Russian Empire, and had been planning how to regain Ukraine for decades.