What actually happened in Ukraine prior to 2022?

The President of Ukraine, from 2014 to 2019; Imagine we would have a president in the Netherlands, saying this about Frisian citizen, or about Jewish people, or about Muslims, or about atheists? He would be ousted within a day. So how come some of you still wonder why the ethnic Russian population of the Donbass wanted to become part of Russia again? Sham-elections my ass. Even many Western Ukrainians actually spoke up against the ridiculously fascist government, but they were never heard, it seems.. Just a reminder of what CIA director William Burns said in a leaked email, back in 2008 (courtesy WikiLeaks): He was right. Ethnic Russians in Ukraine became the victim of an enormous apartheidsregime, enforced by Kiev's government. Read more about the chain of events here. And this anti-minority regime is still active, currently they're enforcing Ukrainian men joining their chosen war against ethnic Russians (i.e. most of them have relatives there, so in fact no sane Ukrainian man actually wants this war). UN estimates the total number of conflict-related casualties in the Donbass region from 14 April 2014 to 31 December 2021 to be 51,000–54,000, of which 14,200-14,400 were killed, and of which ~9000 injured were…

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