8 years ago students in Kiev came out to protest against Yanukovych, because he promised them European integration, but did not keep his promise and failed them. For this, Yanukovych sent the police to beat these students, they were detained and arrested, a day later all of Kyiv came out to protect them and to protest against Yanukovich and that's how the Maidan began. During this events Putin ordered his muppet Yanukovych to flee the country, in his sick mind Ukraine cannot be a member of the EU and a member of NATO and Ukraine cannot live withour Russia so he brought in troops and annexed Crimea, opened the border in eastern Ukraine and sent thugs, soldiers of fortune, criminals, all the rabble that was led by people from the army of the Russian Federation. They overthrew local governments in Luhansk and Donetsk, which led to the creation of the LNR and DNR, then they tried to move further and capture more cities but the Ukrainian army fought back and this whole conflict dragged on for 8 years, going from hot war to cold war and back. Also, these animals shot down a civilian plane over the Donbass, but still have not claimed responsibility, and it is obvious to the whole world that it was the Russian BUK from which the plane was shot down but Putin and his bastards still deny everything. All these 8+ years, Putin's propaganda has been telling us Russians that the Nazis and fascists overthrew the legitimate government in Ukraine, seized all the cities, that they are russophobes and hate russians and that Putin is saving the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine from Bandera's followers and his supporters. And it worked because propaganda is hell of a drug, people were zombfied by it and their brains are clouded. Other problem is that many russians do not know how to speak and read in English, even in the era of social networks they don't receive information from external sources from outside of the russia, all they have is russian social networks and state owned TV channels with Putin's propaganda. When you have been brainwashed for 20 years with the information that the leader of your country is a genius and strategist then it is almost impossible for you to believe that he's a madman lunatic who lost his mind.