We are giving Ukraine the power to defend itself against invading Russians. Do you want to know why we won our independence? Because France helped us. At Saratoga, the French fleet prevented the British from either evacuating or re-supplying their troops by sea. Thomas Jefferson fought the Barbary Coast pirates.
WRONG!
The city of Kyiv used to be the capital of Russia.
The reason the Ukraine is half ethnic Polish instead of being 100% ethnic Russian, is the invasion by the evil Polish empire, around 1600.
They were racist fascist, ancestors of people like Vlad the Impaler, who hated the nomadic people of the steppes who migrated in, like the Mongols, Tatars, Cossacks, Turks, etc.
These ethnic Polish remnants of the invaders, are the ultimate in racist fascism, sided with Hitler in WWII, and ran Hitler's death camps for him.
The Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, etc., were NEVER ethnic Polish, and were not part of the Ukraine until 1955, when Khrushchev the Ukrainian, illegally gave these Russian provinces to the Ukraine.
The Ukraine should never have ruled these ethnic Russian states, and the government in Kyiv badly abused them, as they abuse anyone who is not ethnic Polish.
But it did not become a problem for Russia until the US orchestrated a takeover in 2014, where the military took over, and murdered, arrested, or exiled friendly with Russia.
The US got Kyiv to then steal oil/gas from Russian pipelines, murder over 30k ethnic Russians, violate treaties by trying to join NATO, and essentially declared war by cutting off all negotiations with Moscow.
Which leaves Russia no choice.
It can not survive if the Ukraine is allowed to join NATO and put a first strike missile force on Russia's border.