In fact, Ukraine has been attacking the pro-Russians for years but of course the Western media is turning a blind eye to the atrocities, for example Ukrainian jets blew the legs off this woman in Lugansk in 2014-
(A still from a vid)-
This is what happens when you only get one side of a story, which is why i was so annoyed when we were stopped from watching RT News. Call me strange, but I like to hear both sides of a story before making my mind up. Apparently our lords and masters didn't trust us not to be brainwashed by Putin propaganda.
Re Ukraine, Putin's cleverly playing the "long game" and is going for an attritional body count victory because he knows Ukraine will run out of troops long before him..
So it's totally useless for the West to send tanks, guns and missiles to Ukraine if there won't be any Ukrainian soldiers left to man them.