Russia has made more than clear that they do not want Ukraine and its people to exist as independent nations and people. They want everything to be only Russian.

Probably most Ukrainians, certainly most eastern Ukrainians would rather be a part of Russia. They'd be safer there.

Crimea voted 95% to join Russia and the DPR and LPR have been begging to Join Russia for years.

It doesn't mean they'll be oppressed. The Moslems in Russia for example do not feel oppressed, they just got a giant new mosque in Moscow and many Moslem Chechens are fighting with Christian Russians in Ukraine.

I think you haven't updated your ideas. Russia has multiple ethnicities and they all support Putin except for atlanticists, mafia types and people who think Putin is too soft on the west.

Putin literally said that Ukraine should not exist. He literally said that breaking up the Soviet Union was a grave mistake.

Yes, the west broke up the Soviet Union to destroy it. Most "satellite states" see that now. The west had to pour in billions to radicalise the nazis in Ukraine. 5bn and 25 years I believe. Victoria Nuland etc.. THe previous president befoore the colour revolution was Yanukovich and he is more or less pro Russian.

If you want communists to oppose, oppose the EU, the UN and the WHO