Ukraine attacks secessionist states in the Donbas
Let’s just stop here because I actually was in Donbas when it unrolled in 2013 -and guess what, there was zero fighting, zero ban on Russian language and all the other bullshit that Russia invented 10 years later.
The fighting in Donbas started the day Russian soldiers, with their official patches cowardly removed, crossed from Russia into Ukraine and started capturing administration buildings and killing resisting officials.
You can save your “secessionist” bullshit for more gullible audience, one that also believes stories of “crucified boy of Slavyansk”.
By the way, I was staying there, in Slavyansk, on my last trip in September 2013. And guess what - I was talking Russian to everyone, and nobody had even slightest feeling that in only half year Russian soldiers will invade.