I'm sorry for the Ukrainians too but don't forget the Russian ethnic and speaking Ukrainians that were killed before this all started as Zelensky considered them to be traitors because they wanted to be left alone and separate from Ukraine's authority and rule, hence they were called separaists. Zelensky didn't want a bar of it. At the time they were considered to be separatist rebels of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics have been accused of being proxies for Russian interests, if not simply Russian soldiers in disguise. Whatever the truths were at the time, it's all moot now since war is raging as we speak. It needs to be stopped ASAP.
