Here is an interesting article:

The West Has Placed the Survival of the World in the Hands of Three Artificial States, by Paul Craig Roberts - The Unz Review
https://www.unz.com/proberts/the-west-has-placed-the-survival-of-the-world-in-the-hands-of-three-artificial-states/

An extract from the article:

Ukraine was part of Russia for longer than the United States has existed. It was first created as an independent country in the early 1990s by Washington following the Soviet government’s collapse and replacement of the Communist Party rule’s with Yeltsin’s, a puppet of Washington. Ukraine is thus an artificial country merely 30 years old, having never previously existed as an independent country.

Therefore following the meaning of this it does not matter who actually started shooting at whom in the 2 breakaway provinces of Ukraine or whether or not Russian speaking people in Ukraine are being oppressed by the Kiev regime or not. All these events pale in comparison with the fact that Ukraine has always been a Russian terrirory but when the USSR disintegrated the US took advantage of the situation and started moving NATO to the east and now Ukraine was on the brink of becoming a NATO country.

This can not be tolerated by Russia.

That's why Putin started the special mlitary operation.

In 1990 when Gorbachov was negotiating with US the terms of disarmament US politicians promised to the Soviet delegation that NATO would not move to the east any single nch. This promise, although it was not put on paper at that time, was broken and NATO moved to the east a lot despite the fact that Russia broke away with communism for good.

Now Putin is correcting those mistakes made by Gorbachov 34 years ago.