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Why did you pick that particular option in the question above?
i don’t follow much of what happens in ukraine. plus, the war is not in my country. yet.
an independent european country, our close neighbors. the course of the war in ukraine will determine the situation in the rest of europe. i feel empathy for ukrainians.
because russia started this war.
because russia attacked ukraine and ukraine is fighting for its independence.
because it is true.
the invasion was wrong, but so was the maidan coup in 2014. ivan katchanovski from ottawa university has proven that the maidan massacre was carried out by militants among the protesters, and this was the original root cause of the russia-ukraine war. polls in february 2014 indicated that the maidan protests did not have the support of the majority of ukrainians. in 2008, when president bush forced nato allies to invite ukraine to become a nato member, the majority of ukrainians did not support its nato membership.
i have family in ukraine.
living in lithuania and having extensively known russia's and putin's previous history, there is no motive to voice any kind of support for them.
because i am lithuanian and from my grandparents i know how russia does what they do. ukrainians don't have to explain... we know.