How do you rationalize the thousands of Russian-speaking Ukrainians who were killed by right-wing mercenaries between 2014 and Putin's invasion?
Former NATO Military Analyst Blows the Whistle on West’s Ukraine Invasion Narrative
"Because the first legislative act of the new government resulting from the overthrow of President Yanukovych, was the abolition, on February 23, 2014, of the Kivalov-Kolesnichenko law of 2012 which made Russian an official language..."
"This decision causes a storm in the Russian-speaking population.
"This resulted in fierce repression against the Russian-speaking regions (Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Lugansk and Donetsk) which began in February 2014 and led to a militarization of the situation and a few massacres (in Odessa and Mariupol, for the most important). At the end of summer 2014, only the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk remained."