Obvious from events in the last decade in Eastern Ukraine running to today. Invasion... Millions displaced over 100 000 killed, thousands of civilians murdered by Russian troops, russian rockets and Russian glide bombs. Towns and cities flattened in Ukraine. Infrastructure targeted and destroyed including schools and hospitals.
Is Russia going give back sovereign land of Ukraine? If not it is stealing. Have Ukrainians been murdered in the invasion and attacks from Putin's Russia? Yes.
As an illustration....https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-24/wagner-boss-says-moscows-war-in-ukraine-based-on-lies/102519130 From Piggy, Putin's friend and attack dog. Killed over Russia when he turned on Putin. He was involved in all aspects of initial invasion was involved at top levels, paid billions of dollars. Helping setup conditions with green men and separatist movement. Statements made prior his fall from favour.
Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin says Moscow's war in Ukraine is based on lies
Sat 24 Jun 2023
A man in shirt sitting in front of a black flag.
Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin says on Friday that the official Kremlin-backed version of why Moscow invaded Ukraine was based on lies concocted by his perennial adversary — the army's top brass.
Key points:
Yevgeny Prigozhin rejected Russia's core justification for invading Ukraine for the first time
Mr Prigozhin said the war was about the Russian army chief's vanity and personal glory
Russian shelling in southern Ukraine killed at least three people
Mr Prigozhin has for months been accusing Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Russia's top general, Valery Gerasimov, of rank incompetence, but on Friday he for the first time rejected Russia's core justifications for invading Ukraine on February 24 last year in what it calls a "special military operation".
"The Defence Ministry is trying to deceive society and the president and tell us a story about how there was crazy aggression from Ukraine and that they were planning to attack us with the whole of NATO," Mr Prigozhin said in a video clip released on Telegram by his press service, calling the official version "a beautiful story".
"The special operation was started for different reasons," he said.
"The war was needed ... so that Shoigu could become a marshal ... so that he could get a second 'Hero' (of Russia) medal. The war wasn't needed to demilitarise or denazify Ukraine."
Sitting on a chair with a giant black Wagner flag behind him, Mr Prigozhin said the war had also been needed to enrich the ruling elite who, he said, were not satisfied with the commercial potential of part of Ukraine's Donbas region that Moscow seized control of in 2014 via a proxy separatist force.
Why Prigozhin appears to have fallen out with Putin
Photo shows Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, left, stands next to Vladimir Putin and other men.Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, left, stands next to Vladimir Putin and other men.
As Russia moves to take control of Wagner with its push for recruits to sign contracts before July 1, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the mercenary group, has vowed a boycott. Now everyone is waiting to see if he will ultimately bend to the Russian leader's will — and what happens if he refuses.
"The task was to divide material assets (in Ukraine)," he said.
"There was massive theft in the Donbas, but they wanted more"
