After the 2014 US-led coup, the NAZI elements in Ukraine wanted to drive out the impure ones, the Russians, from Donbas. They killed around 14,000 people in the 8 year period prior to the Russian intervention. Some say that Ukraine was building up to a final push where they would enter Donbas in force and go for genocide. Putin pre-empted that possibility.

Here is one such report but you will be able to find many more if you look.

Here is a video I saved some time ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M33UUZCSSs

After the 2014 US-led coup, the NAZI elements in Ukraine wanted to drive out the impure ones, the Russians, from Donbas. They killed around 14,000 people in the 8 year period prior to the Russian intervention. Some say that Ukraine was building up to a final push where they would enter Donbas in force and go for genocide. Putin pre-empted that possibility.

Here is one such report but you will be able to find many more if you look.