I've stated why many times, in this thread and others. Since you've had your fingers in your ears:
a) Ukraine's banning its ethnic Russian citizens from voting, holding office, and even from speaking their own language -- equivalent to the US banning African Americans from voting, and Hispanics from speaking Spanish.
b) Zelensky's stated intent to disavow the previously-agreed upon Minsk Accords, granting autonomy to Donbas, as well as his administration's threats to reacquire nuclear weapons and attack Russia directly, with veiled hints of "NATO support".
c) Ukraine repeated hosting of NATO training exercises, one last year held only a few miles from the Russian border.
d) Ukraine's cutting off the entire freshwater supply to the civilians of Crimea.
e) The rise of Ukrainian ultranationalist groups which have threatened, terrorized, and killed ethnic Russians, in their search for "ethnic purity" for Ukraine. At least one of these groups -- the swastika-wearing Azov Battalion, was sanctioned by both the UN and the US Congress, acts which Ukraine responded by officially integrating Azov into its armed forces.
f) Ukraine's 2014 coup, which resulted in its democratically-elected leader fleeing the country, to be replaced by Petro Poroshenko, the so-called "Butcher of Donbas", a man whose official government vehicles bore larger-than-life placards of the infamous Nazi sympathizer Stepan Bandera. It was Zelensky's threats to resurrect Poroshenko's hardline policies in Donbas, in fact, that led Russia to begin massing troops on the border.
I could easily list another dozen points, many of which you can reply with justifications, rationalizations, and rebuttals that Russia has done the same or worse. All of which of course only further supports my point.
Yes there is kernals of truth here - but no ones opinion is going to be changed - so I won't take time to address them
Some like the water are a laugh - we stole your land - pumped in Russians( big screen TV ) and you cancelled the netflix sub - Talk about victim blaming
As for Nato drills - yes the USA in spite of Trump have been helping modernise Ukraines military solely because Putin wanted all of Ukraine and the invasion of Crimea - which brought sanctions against Russia as illegal
BR and Russia have been having huge exercises next to Ukraine and NATO borders as well . Russia invades Swedish Air space with Jets all the time . Turkey had enough and shot down a Russia JeT and Putin crawled away as only understands violence .
USA, China all do this big displays of rooster strutting and preening - so what.
Show one invasion on Russian soil - Russia and USSR has killed nearly 100 million people in last 105 years.
All these are victim blaming , Russia is never to be trusted - see Chechnya - that was a lie .
You can not get a peaceful deal with Putin - he and his henchmen have many times stated intentions to grab back all of the eastern Bloc .
Why should Ukraine allow pro-russian parties to stand - whose objective is the overthrow of Ukraine ?
Worry that The USA does not allow communist parties - nothing stops one here in NZ
These conversation need to end as anyone doing research can find better info - no one here is influenced by our ravings
Your desire to see the killing, rape , slaughter . torture continue of proven war criminals like the Wagner Group - Syria , Africa, Chechnya is sad .
Answer me one question only - do you think the average Ukranian will be better off under Russian rule than Ukraine who is seeking EU membership ( so must meet certain stds ) ?
I not saying those 1/2 members are pillars of the world - eg Turkey , Hungary , Poland etc all have a good way to go - but they have democracy where opposition are not killed as much ( Turkey can be brutal )