RUSSIA INVADED DONBAS IN 2014, THEN BLAMED UKRAINE FOR THE WAR 🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Kremlin has spent years promoting the narrative that Ukraine was responsible for attacking Donbas, while conveniently ignoring Russia’s own role in starting and sustaining the conflict. In 2014, Russian fighters and military personnel entered eastern Ukraine, supporting armed separatist forces and helping turn the region into a battlefield. Accounts of Russian-backed fighters launching rockets at both Ukrainian positions and territory controlled by their own side have also fuelled allegations of deliberate provocations intended to blame civilian casualties on Kyiv. The specific incidents and motives behind those claims require independent verification. What is established is that Russia intervened militarily in Ukraine in 2014, years before launching its full-scale invasion in February 2022. The Kremlin’s narrative asks the world to forget that history and accept Moscow’s version of events, in which Russia portrays itself as the protector of a region where its own intervention helped fuel years of war.