I get why you would bring this up, but this is not an helpful intervention in the conversation. “Incredible” doesn’t mean anything objective, and Ukraine factually killed multiple separatists before 2021, there’s no way for me to know whether you’re blaming Russia or Ukraine. So please be more specific, ideally with a source because otherwise this isn’t adding anything to the conversation.
I’ve done some superficial researches but I couldn’t find anything: does anyone know what the morale is like in the regions that voted to join the Russian federation ? I only found out recently that there was a referendum held in the regions almost immediately by Russia. Stop. I know you want to call these referendum a sham, but this isn’t the question here. Russia is going to operate as though they aren’t a sham and no one has the power to stop them at the moment, so what I’m asking is “what is going on in these regions”.
I can’t find the article I initially found on the matter, but apparently civilian areas were being shelled by Ukraine during the vote period.
I’m not sure why Kyiv is so obsessed with fighting to reclaim regions that were ethnic russians and that seems like they don’t even want to be part of Ukraine.
I can concede that the conflict can present “complex” at first glance due to some Palestinians taking arms and themselves doing some heinous acts.
But this is all downstream of an illegal occupation by Israel. This conflict really isn’t that complex. End the illegal occupation, then you can reasonably expect violent resistance to die down and to talk your way through it.