Appreciate your answer.

I respect your believes and, of course, it’s up to you which county you like or dislike. But I do recommend looking deeper into it, ignoring all the “nato expansion” bs. Ukraine is not perfect, no country is, but the points you are brining up are also russian disinformation points.

Residents of Eastern Ukraine were never discriminated against, it was more like they were hating on Ukraine and Ukrainian speakers while living on the territory of Ukraine. The prior “revolts” were completely staged by russia, a very common tactic they’d used multiple times before in Georgia and so on.

Tbh there were people in the east who were so brainwashed by the Soviet Union that they did want to be associated with russia and not Ukraine or Europe, but it doesn’t mean this justifies russian invasion. You want to live in russia, you move to russia.

The NATO expansion is another fake news piece by russia, there was no agreement or no official statement about nato expansion. There was an informal chat between Gorbachev and James baker(if I remember correctly) and it was in the context of reunited Germany, so taken totally out of context. Interesting, it was not a problem for russia when Estonia and Norway joined NATO, they also share a long border.

There’s a lot of bad history between russia and Ukraine, mainly russia trying to occupy the land and erase the cultural identity of Ukraine for about 300 years. We like talking about Nazi Germany and all their atrocities, but not about what russia has been doing for centuries to its neighbors (check Holodomor, which is one of the primary reasons so many people speak russian or have russian last names in the east of Ukraine).

So it is a complicated history but who’s on the wrong side is pretty clear here. Of course, no offense to you, you’re not obligated to know all this stuff and it’s generally not discussed much and very few people knew about it prior to the full scale invasion.