Total agreement on this.Monderegal » 25 Jan 2023, 3:12 pm » wrote: ↑ Actually he is absolutely right. Eastern provinces of Ukraine consider themselves ethnic Russians and there has been a conflict in that region since 2014 prior to the full scale invasion 11 months ago. There were two peace deals called Minsk I and Minsk II that were abandoned in the ceasefire stage. Both sides of that conflict blamed the other one for violating the terms. Then Putin tried to annex all of Ukraine flagrantly which is the full scale conflict the world is now witnessing. .