Maybe you forget they owe billions in back debts from the collapse of the USSR or that Russian annexed those territories because ETHNIC RUSSIANS living there were being bombed for 8 years you nincompoop
just-international.org
"But the real ethnic cleansing of Russians in Ukraine began after the 2014 Maidan coup, once again ousting pro-Russia Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, and NATO powers initiated an eight-year war of attrition against Russia in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region by nurturing the Ukraine’s infamous Azov Battalion, officially part of the National Guard of Ukraine, that has been widely acknowledged as a neo-Nazi volunteer paramilitary force connected with foreign white supremacist organizations."
Btw this is who you support in Ukraine