How do you know any of this?
Were you party to the post election Putin discussions and were immersed in Kiev culture prior to 2014? Or have you, again, just adopted your position based on your favoured MSM outlets opinion?
Ukrainian and European Russians are of the same blood, Kievan Rus being the forerunner of Russia which was the same country as Ukraine since forever until 1991.
Why do you care so much whether a country that has only existed for 30 odd years, and whose territory has been occupied for centuries by Poles, Austrians, Hungarians and Lithuanians?
Genuinely makes zero sense to anyone who can think objectively.
Especially given that Putin, Biden, Jonson, Sunak, Starmer, Macron and Zelenskyy will all survive beyond any war or peace treaty, as ordinary plebs that you “care” so much about are the unwitting cannon fodder (along with taxpayers money as pensioners freeze to death in your adopted homeland)