Right, the coup of 2014 ousted democratically elected president and part of a country disagreed. As far as russian vs ukranian... It's basically one nation. Many russians have ukranian blood in them, many ukranians have russian blood in them. There are million's of ukranians working in russia today. The divide was engineered from outside and it was well engineered. Divide and concur is an old strategy and the west is very-very good at it.

Russian and Ukranians are too gullible. Less so now, but in 2014 they were like children.

And Ukranians at Maidan were treated like children by Nuland who brought them cookies, quite fittingly.

The aggressors were the west and the Ukranian "nationalists" (I avoided using the right word) seeking to cancel the history of the people in Ukraine, replacing it with their own absurd version rehabilitating ukrainian nazi collaborationists, giving their imaginary version of the famine before the war (I heard a figure of "60 million killed" from one person), and seeking to cancel Russian language and Russian culture there. In particular in Crimea, where the absolute majority had no ties with Ukranian language or culture.

This is how "separatists" you are complaining about appeared in the first place. And then yes, Russia stepped in, while before it sought only economical and political influence. Just as your beloved west did. And tell me now who owns your land..