They’re bothers and sisters. As Putin has said, ‘They are our Slavic bros’. With the gov. overthrow - remember Biden saying that the Prosecutor investigating his sons crimes in Ukraine isn’t fired, he’ll take the $billion and go home - they installed a puppet, then Zelensky. Many Russians lived deep inside Ukraine, but the Minsk Accord signed in 2014/15 to give the Russian speaking civilians in the Donbas the freedom to speak Russia, teach Russian subjects, etc. As soon as they were dry, Germany, France and Ukraine trashed the. Since 2015, 16,000 civilians in the Donbas have been slaughtered by weapons supplied by the US. Merkel admitted this only a few days ago where she said that since 2015, Ukraine has been used to prepare America to fight Russia! Russia has been preparing for this and that’s why they held a referenda to give the people in the Donbas to come back under the protection of Russia and this is why the vote was so high in the 4 areas. Millions of these people in the Donbas have been taken to safety inside Russia.