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I have seen no evidence Russia wasn't largely supported by the populations of Crimea and the Donbass indeed both regions have recruited large forces in the past 8 years to resist Ukrainian agression against the independent republics, and Ukraine's ethnic and linguistic war against its russian speeaking minority certainly hasn't had made me sympathetic to them.
Ukraine is a corrrupt authoritarian country that has been commiting cultural if not actual genocide against its russian minority since 2014... This isn't Hitler invading Poland
Pre-WWII Poland similarly suppressed the culture and language of their large Ukrainian and Belarusian minorities, so the situations are in fact very similar. The Soviet Union justified its conquest of the eastern half of Poland by claiming that they're liberating these oppressed minorities.
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And somehow this forces were recruited mostly among Russian soldiers that visited with Russian equipment, up to anti-air system that shot down civilian airliner (and this specific Buk system with missing missile returned to Russia).
In other words, sometimes negating mainstream media just makes you repeating a different propaganda that is less truthful.
Yes, BBC and CNN are manipulating and often lying. But Lavrov and whatever sources you use are much worse than that on this topic.
In Crimea maybe, but I have seen also no evidence that annexation into Russia had a real majority. To speak nothing about supermajority. And no, "referendum" setup by Russia without oversight with Russian army standing around obviously does not count.
In Donbass? Support for what? Autonomy had serious support, peaceful annexation into Russia had minimal support. Multiyear war and turning Mariupol into mass grave had no support.
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Especially for deliberate mass murder claims (I guess that you mean by "actual genocide"?).
And not some official Russian propaganda.
Ideally, not something where Russians are 10 or 100 times worse. Somehow one side invaded and keeps bombing cities, shot down civilian airliner, deports people and Lavrov claimed that no attack is happening both while invasion was prepared and weeks after it started.
Cultural genocide is defined as the purposeful elimination of a culture with a group of people especially including attempts to break linguistic continuity.
I'm a Canadian who has to hear about how residential schools were "genocide" against the native population multiple times a week at land acknowledgements before events, in PSAs put out endlessly on radio, TV, and youtube ads and you better damn well believe I'm going to hold the woke's puppet regime to the exact same standards of what constitutes genocide that they want to hold white Canadians to... Especially when murder of civilians, often over stuff as simple as social media posts, are rampant in Ukraine.
I am not from Canada and I am not at all responsible neither for residential schools nor ongoing handling of that
Are you claiming that anything even close in scale to what Canada did in this schools for native people is happening in Ukrainian schools?
are you withdrawing claims of "actual genocide against its russian minority since 2014" - mentioned by you in distinction from cultural genocide?
"Especially when murder of civilians, often over stuff as simple as social media posts, are rampant in Ukraine." - I want to remind you that Russia invaded Ukraine, not other way around so it is hard to put blame on Ukrainians for Russia bombing cities.
"woke's puppet regime" - if you think that Ukraine is strongly woke then you are quite confused. And they are getting substantial support but are quite far from being puppeteed by either side.
"multiple times a week at land acknowledgements before events, in PSAs put out endlessly on radio, TV, and youtube ads" - wat.
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