No, what happened was that we in the West helped overthrow the democratically elected government
WRONG
The 2014 Maidan was a result of the then Putin puppet president Yanukovych reneging on the democratically agreed deal with EU and instrad went to his pal Putin for a deal
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/explainers/understanding-ukraines-euromaidan-protests
d Reich connections to their grandparents' SS membership
Ah yes the “Ukrainian Nazis”
You are repeating Pure Putin propaganda
sure Ukraine has an issue with the neo Nazi movement, but its just Russian propaganda to claim it has anything to do with Donbas troubles
In fact Azov were engaged in fighting against Wagern and defending Ukraianians in the regino
Ethnic Russians in the Donbas region objected to being treated as Untermench
More Russian propaganda
being forced into buildings and set on fire, etc,
Please go and read what really happened in Odessa instead of posting lies
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27275383
Most Ukrainians have Russian family. This is a civil war between cousins. This is an entirely synthetic, artificial conflict, created by the usual suspects for the usual reason - must destabilise Russia, and way we can.
More Russian propaganda
The troubles in Donbas started because Putin sent in Wagner to annexe Donbas. And he funded and armed Russian backer separatists
Yes, the people of the Crimea really, really did want to be Russian. The had a referendum and declared independence from the the USSR, initially as part 9f the Ukraine but then they wanted their independence.
WRONG
the 2014 referendum only gave 2 false choice, there was no option for the status quo
and as the refworld.org link details
good grief you have linked to an article referring to a guy name "Gary Brecher" a pseudonym used by John Dolan when he wrote in the Exile a Moscow based satirical newspaper
the reality is Crimeans did not want to be Russian:
"My research shows that it is likely that Crimea was not passportised by Russia prior to annexation because Crimea’s residents viewed Russian citizenship as inaccessible, undesirable, illegitimate, and illegal.
Only the minority in pro-Russian parties wanted Russian citizenship. They wanted it to provide leverage against Ukraine. But Russian citizenship was not accessible to them. It was illegal by Ukrainian law. And Russia did not seem to facilitate access to Russian citizenship in Crimea – even for those in pro-Russian parties."
https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/rese...crimeans-really-pro-russian-before-annexation
Your post is a stream of Russian propaganda, it’s all the same predictable falsehoods and misinformation spread by the well known Putin apologists that are in the media.
So please stop posting Russian propaganda and go away and do some factual research, not conspiracy theorist misinformation