My wife is one of those Russian speakers from the Donbas. Most Russian speakers are not ethnic Russians. And you are full of it with your Moscow talking points. For every crime committed by Ukrainians in the Donbas there must be two dozen more serious ones committed by Russia over and above the criminal invasions.
“My wife is one of those Russian speakers from the Donbas.”
That explains your Ukraine First, anti American bias.
But she doesn’t live there currently, right? I’m sure she’d feel differently if she’d been living under the threat of bombs every day for 8 years, by her fellow Ukrainians too!