A world view is built by centuries of diplomacy and mutual interactions. A few people are insignificant as they are not in power long enough.
What diplomacy is there between Ukraine and Russia? I'd say 0.
When it comes to Putin and his views, his whole agenda is based on lies. Lies that it's not a war, but a special operation, lies that Ukraine was part of Russia when in fact current Russia came from Ukraine because Kiev was the capital before Moscow... Putin is acting just like Hitler and Stalin used to. He wants to play big and be remembered in history as a strong leader, but all that people will remember is how many people died in this stupid war.
All things aside, let's say he's 100% right, democracy is bad, gays are bad... Murdering people with other views still makes you a murderer, even if your opinions are better and your way of life is superior. Who gives you the right to tell me how I should live? I'm not a Russian and I don't want to see armed Russians forcing me into submission.
The UN has written in its Charter, that every group of people can make a nation out of its land if they want. Ukraine tried to stop the people of the areas of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donbas, and Crimea (and maybe others) from making their own lands into their own States.
In early 2022 Ukraine went against the UN, and started attacking, killing and destroying its own people in these areas. Many of the people of these areas appealed to Russia to help them. Putin filed Article 51 of the UN charter to mount the police action he did in Feb., 2022. Zelensky did not listen even to Putin, but turned it into a war that he will not even give up today, even though it is destroying multiple thousands of Ukrainian people and Russians alike.
The West is guilty of helping Z push this war. The West is after Russian lands... especially the western banking system is trying to turn Russia into part of its western self. And it doesn't really care about Ukraine. Ukraine simply offers a good method for stealing Russia from the Russian people.
Note that Kiev, though it was once the capitol of the whole Russian/Ukraine lands, that it did not remain such because of its corruption. The Russian people who wanted to get away from the corruption, moved their capitol to Moscow.
