itsmeagainhere

My distant roots came also from Khar'kov.

As for legitimization of murders of Russian people, I remind you the Odessa pogrom and the "anti terrorist operation" (there was not "just" this).

"Such twisted ligic.." Russia started the war with the main purpose to make the current Ukranian government fall, and to stop NATO from entering Ukraine. It did not succeed.

..and Crimea and Donbass do not want to be "defended by you". They actually want you to be as far as possible from them. Though of course if you go in there, and do what you did when you returned to Izyum and Kupyansk, people will be silent.

I hope you understand that (but to people such as yourself, this rarely matters, in my experience).

Russia adhered to the Minsk agreements as long as it could, it did not want to start this war. Both Merkel and Hollande, as far as I remember, admitted that the Minsk agreements were not made in good faith, and their purpose was only to give time to Ukraine to rearm. Russia started the war after it became clear that NATO was going to enter Ukraine, and after it was abundantly clear for years that the real purpose of ukranian nationalists was collaborating with the west to destroy Russia and its identity (though you will probably negate this, you could not negate that there was a tacit and creeping legitimization in Ukraine of murders and violent actions against people identifying themselves as Russians).

Continue to negate what is before your eyes (if you care to look, that is).

Unfortunately it is much closer to truth than the western version of events

You think you know what goes on in Russia, but you actually understand not so much.

Get it into your head: what goes on is that your country (your country's capitalists, not joes like you of course) wages an occupation (this is the final goal, unless you hide your head in the sand) war against Russia, and Ukraine is just a tool, as it happened before in history.

And if I, a person living in Europe, understand that perfectly, what do you imagine Russian people think?

Look at the mirror, american ubermensch

You are the rogue country.

(And you actually know that, but since it benefits you, or at least so you are told, you are "not seeing" that.)