If you knew anything about Ukraine you’d understand why they fought the Russians.
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend”
Almost everyone from Eastern Europe hates russians, especially those who endured their brutal occupation.
I see people daily who are either from Ukraine or have family there. I have met many who still live there but came to visit.
There is a large Ukrainian diaspora in Manitoba, here is a bilingual school in Dauphin!
Meet the actual people on the ground instead following mass media bs.
OK. I understand why they would hate the Russians. But my statement stands. They worked with the nazis against Russia but also targeted Jews as per instructions. Approximately 1.5 million Jews were slaughtered in Ukraine by both Germans and Ukrainian nationalists. Its also probably why after the 2014 coup that the eastern oblasts tried to withdraw from Ukraine being mainly Russian speaking and knowing what would be in store if they remained in the union with the hatred of them being as you described.
The Russian army was not officially involved in Ukraine although some paramilitary groups were involved in the fighting but once the offer was made for Ukraine to join NATO Putin decided to preempt that by invading before they received NATO membership which would put them at war with the West directly.
This is some information on the fate of Jews in WW2 between 1941 and 1945.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Ukraine
Also note that Putin and Zelenskyy had both agreed to a peace negotiation made by Turkish and Jewish negotiators which we broke via Boris Johnston and US interference.
This war never needed to happen. Ukraine could have been left basically intact.
And I should note that Russians were concerned about the nazification of Ukraine as one of the points of contention. Before this war started virtually every story about Ukraine that did not involve Burisma was about the white supremacy movement in Ukraine which were dead set on eliminating Russian speakers from Ukraine. Examples:
And if you watch one of these videos watch this one. It was made back in 2014 and its chilling how much of it has come true. They predicted a wider war occurring as a result of the US inspired coup in 2014.