You can repeat "that is Kremlin propaganda" unti you're blue in the face. Putin says the sky is blue. My agreeing doesn't make it Kremlin propagada.

Between 2014 and 2022, 15,000 Ukrainians died, 80% of them from the ethnic Russian enclaves in the Donbass. Killed through shelling from the Ukrainian government in direct violation of the Minsk II agreement signed by the Ukrainian government in 2015. That ain't peaceful.

In the weeks Prior to Russia's invasion, Ukraine increased their shelling of the Donbass by a huge factor (see the pro-western OSCE report on this). They amassed 60,000 troops on the border of the Donbas in preparation to invade and once and for all wipe out the Ukrainian separatists. That aint' peaceful.

I can be against the Russian invasion (I am) and also be against the Ukrainian ethnic cleansing between the US -backed coup in 2014 and Russia's invasion in 2022. There are no good guys here except the Ukrainian civilians and the conscripts forced to fight.