Let me guess.
Ukraine banned your culture, forfeited your social security, stole your bank accounts, disconnected water and electricity, and runs TV shows there you are called collaborator for failure to “resist”. Then bombing and shelling on top of it.
Russia returned you your culture, pays you pension and benefits, restored utilities and so on.
Tell me what sort of weirdo is not going to vote for Russia?
I remember elections in many troubled countries, but I don’t remember the American media ever referring to them as a “sham”. Even in Zimbabwe, Iraq and Libia, they never disparaged the democratic process.
I can only conclude it’s because their favored side is going to lose.
The problem with any conflict is, you become your enemy. Five minutes after a war starts it is hard to distinguish who has the moral high ground. As for who did what to whom, did this war start on February 2022 or in 2014, or June 1941 or in the sixteenth century? Did Catherine the Great invade Crimea in 1776 because Ukraine was seeking to join the European Union or was cozying up to NATO? Anyone can pick any date and any circumstance to support their narrative.