PrettyFlyForAFatGuy

Raised protestant, went to catholic school, went Atheist within a year of leaving

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I don't know enough about that conflict to form an opinion on it

it was a joke.

There's too many lemmygrad users here. The ignorance is rubbing off on me

Yanukovych fled to a country that was actively at the same time invading Ukraine derelicting his duties as President.

The Ukrainian legislature then voted to remove him

At which point an election was held and a new president was elected

Exactly

Russia started a war in 2014?

Yes. Russia invaded and annexed Crimea which is a part of ukraine. It also provided arms and boots on the ground to separatist movements in the Donbas

Whether or not the separatist faction is fomented by a foreign power, what gives Ukraine the right to shell them for nearly a decade

They are a hostile force occupying Ukrainian land, committing human rights abuses against Ukrainians living in the Donbas.

make their language and culture illegal

The Russian language was not, nor has it ever been, banned. The Ukrainian parliament attempted to repeal a law that granted minority languages such as Russian regional status but it was vetoed by the then president of Ukraine. It’s wasn’t until 2018 that the law was deemed to be unconstitutional but even then, neither the Russian language, nor its culture was banned

In early 2022 Ukraine was preparing for military action on Donbas, to essentially remove all remaining dissenters.

Ukraine has been investing heavily in its defense capabilities since it was invaded in 2014 by a hostile foreign power. If there was ever a good reason to build up a military, that's it

Ukraine was, and remains, at war with separatist factions fomented by Russia. If Russia didn't want a war in Donbas, they shouldn't have started a war there

a coup, by definition, is “a sudden, violent, and unlawful seizure of power from a government.” Yanukovych was removed after losing the confidence of both the people and his party through legal processes already afforded to the Ukrainian legislature. Enough of his party defected to the opposition to the point where he no longer commanded a majority.