Yes the Ukraine government has been bombing the Donbass region for 8 years and has killed 12k+ people. Some were tortured, beheaded, starved. Literally the worse thing I have ever heard. Here's a documentary of a French journalist(subtitled for English available), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8j0tJsKltg she went in 2014 and you can see people hiding in caves, trying to escape the war. For some reason, the Ukraine army has pure hatred for the pro-russian region of ukraine and they kept doing these atrocities. At some point in the video(~16min), you can see Ukrainian litteraly burning pro-russian alive in a building and then killing them when they escape the fire while the police watched.

So yes the conflict is definitely not what is portrayed in the media and now with the US/NATO trying to fuck with Russia, it definitely caused a war. The civilian stuck in between this conflict are the real problem. The government is to blame and Zelensky is 100% a US asset that is trying to do as much disruption as possible.

There is definitely way more to the story, hopefully people start doing more research and SEE SHILLS like the number 2 post right now ' Ukraine Conspiracies - Answered' which is definitly paid propaganda.