There you go with your lack of reading comprehension skills again. We're talking about Donetsk and Lugansk region. Please stay on point. Approximately 40% were ethnic Russian.
You do know that Ukraine's military was almost completely reliant on Russian miltech, right? Russian tanks were (and are) used on both sides. So if we're talking tanks - there were plenty of "Russian tanks" in Ukraine at that time already.
Who cares about BUK, lol. Although if you wanna go down the history revisionism route, let me know. We can talk about the times when Crimea was more known as Taurica.
There was no "invasion" in 2014 kiddo, get over it. What did happen in 2014, is an illegal armed coup, which displaced the democratically elected government in an unconstitutional manner. Donetsk and Lugansk region were begging Russia to become a part of the Russian Federation, but Putin's government decided not to go ahead with that in hopes of avoiding an escalation of the conflict.
In one of his many election campaign promises, Zel vowed to restore peace with Russia and de-escalate the situation in the Eastern parts of Ukraine. A promise that was broken as soon as Zel got into power and started doing anything and everything he could to keep provoking Russia. With the help of US-backed NATO of course.
But hey, you go ahead and deny the obvious facts once again. And carry on with your conspiracy theories. They're entertaining.
