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The Ukrainian and Israeli governments have a common goal: ethnic cleansing of a helpless captive population. Both governments have agreed to various peace processes over the years mediated by foreign governments, then actively ignored the stipulations of those agreements, and those foreign governments were nowhere to be found when Ukraine/Israel continued the ethnic cleansing.
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Have you heard of Donbas? No shame if you haven't, you have to go out of your way to know much about it. Ukraine has been shelling civilians in Donbas since 2014. The people there and in Crimea are ethnically Russian, that's why they want to be independent from Ukraine and why Ukraine hates them for it.
Nope, I did not and will read about that further. Asking questions to learn :)
the kind that won't be one for long
Further to this, the agreements were the Minsk agreements.
Hexbear we found a good one do not be mean to them they are precious
This might be helpful as well, a language map of Ukraine I found on wikipedia. The red areas are the areas with a majority of Russian speakers, in Crimea and the southeast. It's a census from 2001 too, so it's not like this is a recent thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Ukraine#/media/File:UkraineNativeLanguagesCensus2001detailed-en.png
Here's another wikipedia map of the area called Donbas. It lines up pretty well with the Russian speakers in the first map. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donbas#/media/File:Donetsian_Region_in_Ukraine_(claims_hatched).svg
Now here's where things get complicated. Eastern Ukraine and Crimea have a pretty stark political split that also follows these lines. Here's an election map from 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%94%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80_2010_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%85-en.png
Yanukovich, the blue guy, was overthrown in the Euromaiden coup in 2014.
Interestingly, in 2019 a certain Russian speaking presidential candidate from Eastern Ukraine ran for president and won, with his strongest political support coming from these same regions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Ukrainian_presidential_election#/media/File:2019_Ukrainian_presidential_election,_round_2.svg
I don't claim to fully understand the history of the country, or the various coups/revolutions, or even really what modern Ukraine is like, but whatever is going on it probably has something to do with this.
Ukranian citizens who are non-Ukranian speakers have been getting targeted for years leading up to this by language laws, this hasn't just been ethnic Russians but also Greeks, Romani, Hungarians.
This then turned into routinely shelling the parts of Ukraine where these civilians predominantly live, and was leading into a full invasion before the SMO happened.
I know a lib that says that the eastern russians are colonizers and this is decolonialism
I know too many people like that- it's agonizing having to be around them in professional situations and not just physically assault them. "look how many innocent people we're getting killed while making bank, don't worry it's worth it because Russians are dying"
The Russian speaking minority population in the east of Ukraine, particularly in the breakaway republics that formed after 2014, who are subject to policies to suppress the Russian language as well as the republics being subjected to prolonged bombing campaigns and attacks by far right militias.
@Sitcom@monyet.cc in addition, it's important to note that the coup in 2014 was planned and funded by the US government, and that both the integration of Crimea into the Russian Federation (by overwhelming popular vote) and the creation of the DPR and LPR was a reaction to this
To be even more precise, the coup regime repealed the Kolesnychenko-Kivalov language law, a law that granted the status of regional languages for Russian and other minority languages in Ukraine, literally on the first day they took power (23 February 2014).
Everyone knows this means ethnic cleansing when a new government repealed laws that protect minority rights. Donbass separatists rose up as a response to this.
Minsk agreements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements
Yes I know wikipedia is garbage