The Donbas Region (eastern Ukraine) is predominantly ethnic Russian and has been in a civil war since the 2014 coup after which the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces declared independence (DPR and LPR)… in February, Russia recognized their independence. This current “war” is intended to end that war, DPR and LPR military forces are part of the effort.
From October 2019:
The war in the eastern Ukrainian region known as the Donbas has killed over 13,000 people, displaced millions, and led to the worst rupture in relations between the Russian Federation and the West since the end of the Cold War.
The war was caused by inherent cleavages in Ukrainian society, combined with clumsy and self-interested intervention by outside powers.
The war’s effects on Ukraine have been profound: the collapse of the post-Soviet Ukrainian political elite; billions of dollars in direct and indirect losses to the Ukrainian economy; a wholesale restructuring of the Ukrainian armed forces; social dislocation and psychological trauma; and unprecedented environmental damage.
Zelensky's Presidential advisor, 2019:
Since 2019, the death toll is reportedly 14,000, prior to the current situation.
That doesn’t square with the corporate globalist media narrative because they leave out the historical aspects leading up to current events.
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