Russia Ukraine war, page-926

Not sure if people realise or remember but the Yugoslavia war was very similar to this. Here the Ukraine war is in reverse. Serbia (or former Yugoslavia) was Russia allies (here Ukraine is NATO allies) and Kosovo and Croatia (now Donetsk and Lubestk regions want break away from Ukraine) want independent from Serbia.

When Kosovo locals called and voted for independence from Serbia, the EU recognised their independence and call for help to break away from Yugoslavia. The US NATO then use this as the basis to send in peace keeping troops under the vigorous protest from Russia and Yugoslavia.

So this maybe geopolitical revenges by Putin so to speak.