Putin's North Korean Soldiers

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I didn't say they HAD to, I said they took advantage of the situation, which the US had begun.  They could also from it as defence of Russians in Ukraine, or has everyone forgotten about Kiev shelling it's own citizens in 2014, as well as the very textbook US support of Neonazis in Ukraine for its Color Revolution?
I have no horse in the race but looking at Ukraine as a defenceless nation when in fact it was it's corrupt leadership put in power at the helm, and put there by the US which lead Russia to start a 'Military Operation' in the first place.
If they had let the Ukrainian election of Yanukovych stand, none of this would have happened.
It's meddling and it's a proxy war.
Both sides are at fault.   I am not some random UK/NZ/Australian bystander; I had ex military family working in Kiev, and Romania, and I am also ex military, so I have personal experience of exactly how the USA was meddling which led to this.

Tell us your personal experience of exactly how the USA was meddling which led to this, please.

Maybe you can tell me how the sanctions imposed on Russia since 2014 has no impact in all of this too?

From AI search:

International sanctions have been imposed against Russia and Crimea during the Russo-Ukrainian War by a large number of countries, including the United States, Canada, the European Union, and international organisations following the Russian annexation of Crimea, which began in late February 2014.

And how additional sanctions in early 2024, before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, had no impact in all of this, too, please.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60125659