The SMO didn’t just start in 2022. Since 2014/15, Ukraine have been bombing and killing Russian speaking citizens along the Russian/Ukraine border. This area is also known as the Donbass. Around that time, the Minsk Accords were signed to allow these Russians to practice their faith and language and continue to learn about Russia their homeland after the American lead coup which overturned a duly elected Ukrainian President. For years, the people of the Donbass who mostly lived underground (especially the children) in bunkers, feared for their lives. They begged Putin to help. Remember those Accords? They were a ruse to move NATO closer to the Russian border. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/22/ffci-d22.html 14,000 Russian speaking citizen since 2014 were murdered by the Ukrainian military.
The SMO didn’t just start in 2022. Since 2014/15, Ukraine have been bombing and killing Russian speaking citizens along the Russian/Ukraine border. This area is also known as the Donbass. Around that time, the Minsk Accords were signed to allow these Russians to practice their faith and language and continue to learn about Russia their homeland after the American lead coup which overturned a duly elected Ukrainian President. For years, the people of the Donbass who mostly lived underground (especially the children) in bunkers, feared for their lives. They begged Putin to help. Remember those Accords? They were a ruse to move NATO closer to the Russian border. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/22/ffci-d22.html 14,000 Russian speaking citizen since 2014 were murdered by the Ukrainian military.