As opposed to a puppet regime ran by the Biden Administration? Even before the war, Ukraine stripped its ethnic Russian citizens of the right to vote, to hold office, and even to speak their own language -- equivalent to the US telling it's African-American citizens they can't vote, and their Hispanic citizens they're not allowed to speak Spanish. And after Zelensky's election, he banned opposition political parties and non state-run media. Men attempting to flee the country are arrested, and anyone who speaks out against Zelensky's policies are arrested for treason far faster than anyone would be in Russia ... they even are having Ukrainians who fled the country *before* the war arrested for criticizing Zelensky (the case of Anatoliy Shariy in Spain as just one example).
As for this supposedly "entirely unprovoked" war; European media reported the provocations in detail, from Zelensky's threats to re-acquire nuclear weapons and attack Russia directly; to their abandonment of the previously-agreed upon Minsk Accords; to various Ukrainian ultranationalist groups trying to "racially purify" Donbas of its ethnic Russian Jews; to the Ukraine government's cutting off of the entire freshwater supply to the civilians of Crimea. It's difficult to call any war ever justified ... but anyone who justifies the US's attacks on Syria, Serbia, Libya, or Yemen, or their killing of 200,000 Iraqi civilians in search of illusory WMD, will be hypocritical to criticize Russia here.
