>>141322
There are Communist forces in Western Ukraine that have been fucking with Russia for years, and the Ukrainian government covered for them. They're literally Antifa. When they started trying to bomb Russian gas pipelines was when Russia first stuck their dick back in Ukraine years ago. All of this is a continuation of the same conflict, but then NATO started making overtures to Ukraine and Russia
will not stand for that shit. Ukraine got their independence (and a shit ton of Russian money to look after Chernobyl) on the sole premise that they could never, ever join NATO.
Putin set a red line 20 years ago, and we crossed it.