Thankfully Azov and its allies have been shelling Donbas for years to make sure that boys could never grow up to be Russian soldiers . . .
The US has been supporting the most violent extremists in Ukraine for many years. The war has been going continuously since the US-supported coup in 2014, but it has been ignored by the western media.
The government in Kiev did in 2014. They then signed the Minsk agreements that laid out a plan for a peace in a united Ukraine, but they have since ignored them.
Azov and its allies have been fighting the war in Donbas continuously since then. The war got virtually zero attention in the west until the Russian invasion.
Okay fascists are not cool even if their supporters win the Eurovision contest.
Cool or not, we still need to send them massive amounts of military aid to kill more Russians. Some of the aid may even make it to the front.
What can terrorists do with a plentiful supply of US-made missiles? Given the black market and corruption in Ukraine, it is likely will have to find that out.
The conflict in eastern Ukraine began in April 2014 with low-level fighting between the Ukrainian military and Russian-backed separatist rebels who seized some towns in predominantly Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine
Yes, that is one way of looking at. Of course that means that Sherman did not invade Georgia, and the British never invaded the US during the American Revolution.
The US-backed coup in 2014 removed the elected president and resulted in a civil war.