Sorry, Bogdan, your fairy tale is refuted by the OSCE. Ukraine styarted killing ethnic Russians in 2014 with the ATO . That is what they called it "Anti Terrorism Operation" - not "Anti-Russian Operation"; not "Ukrainian self defense operation against the Muscovite invaders".

Yats was quite explicit in his decree: the people of the Donbas were "subhumans" and he unleashed the Kraken, Azov Aidar, etc to "cleanse the land of evil". This was the civil war that Lavrov warned Burns about in 2008.