Given that Ukraine has targetted Moscow I am sure he will do so and there is no reason why any internation country would be surprised. Most have helped keep the war going and are unlikely to be listened to having chosen to be at war with Russia. We have always had the option of working toward peace yet constantly choose war. There is no surprise here.

@SamuelJohnson It is risible nonsense to keep using the propaganda concept that Ukraine was a sovereign country after the coup. It clearly was not. The country split into its different groups and none controlled all the land of Ukraine and therefore none were sovereign. Media like the BBC push such propaganda to promote hatred and division such as yours. During the civil war the Nazi groups like Azov and Sich that we were funding were killing lots of the 40% of the population that voted for pro Russian parties. This was because the country could not align to the western model if allowed to democratically vote for a pro Russian government. So we were paying the people of western Ukraine to kill the people of eastern Ukraine in a civil war that was well underway before Russia, quite predictably took a side. The Ukrainian people, who are not stupid, could see where this was going. I find it amazing that people like yourself were surprised. Zelenskyy, who lived and worked in Russia and only spoke Russian, stood for election on a platform of avoiding a war that everyone knew was coming if Azov and Sich kept murdering the ethnic Russians. No one seemed to care about the ethnic Hungarians etc. that were also suffering ethnic cleansing. Unfortunately, as soon as Zelenskyy was elected, Boris Johnson went and had a word with Zelenskyy to explain the advantages of war and Zelenskyy tore up all the negotiations and promises to the people and went to war. The war was completely unnecessary and it was not Russia that wanted it but the Russian people will not allow the ethnic cleansing to return. People like you seem to believe that it is OK to ban the first language of a people from schools and governments but that is ethnic cleansing. Banning the church of the people is also ethnic cleansing but you are fine as you hate Russia. You probably also claim that Russia invaded Crimea even though in exactly the same situation we faught for Kosovo's right to cede. We started this war, not Russia, not even Ukraine. No one is talking about how the people of Donbas or Crimea would be protected if Russia left or if the bombing and genocide would return. Not even Russia cares about the people of Transcarpathia, they can just die quietly because we are busy killing Russians. War is wrong and dumb propaganda cannot make it right.

@SamuelJohnson Are you saying that when Russia committed to respect Ukraine's borders that they also agreed to allow the genocide of the people within those borders? Crimea was not part of Ukraine and decided to cede as is its right when it's people suffered the violence following Maidan and saw the mass murder of people in nearby Odessa. A right that we faught for in Kosovo in the same situation. Russia did not ferment conflict, that started with the coup that overthrew the government. Most people had voted for that government so that there were people that were angry with that violent coup is in no way a surprise to an objective person. 40% of Ukraine are ethnic Russian, anyone that was surprised at the result is an idiot. You just come across as a warmonger. That is the problem. So many people who simply refuse to see that there were two sides, not one. In fact that are more than two sides but I guess nuance is too much for some people. The side we support in the west is actually not even the majority although the Russian side is not a majority either but is the largest. We supported one side in a civil war and deny that there was any such action happening. Russia just invaded for no reason even though someone armed a few private armies and overthrew the democratically elected government. Yes, he was a corrupt leader just like every other Ukrainian leader but to most he was their leader and to beat up, rape and murder those who objected to the coup has a predictable result. Most Ukrainians have relatives in Russia and vice versa so yes there was a lot of support for help but Russia did not help until all avenues were exhausted. So now you have your war and Zelenskyy is getting very rich while the people and the country die. Russia has those areas where all that was asked in 2014 was that those areas had a vote on autonomy. They did not want to take those areas out of Ukraine. Apart from all the people that have died how do you see this as going? Can you at least understand why the Ukrainian people would have preferred the Donbas to have been given a referendum on autonomy? The obvious result would have been that they would have voted for autonomy but that to most people is better than war. Why do you prefer war? Why do you lack any respect for human life? Most Ukrainian refugees went to Russia because they are welcome there. They speak the same language and are welcome to unlike at home in Ukraine. The only area of Ukraine where Russian was not the first language for the majority of people is Transcarpathia where Hungarian is the first language.

@SamuelJohnson No Ukrainian wants to live in a corrupt state whether ethnic Russian or otherwise. I fail to see the relevance of that. Look at the history to see that it was not a minority that wish to ally with Russia but the majority in most election over the past 25 years up to 2014. Not sure where you get the idea that a Jew cannot be a Nazi. I assume that you do not follow what is happening in Israel either but Azov and Sich were very openly Jewish National Socialist military battalions that were armed at great expense out of nowhere in 2014. The Nazi groups from Galicia were very prominent and you will still see the red and black Bandera flag at most rallies. Azov and Sich changed their sites to say they are Social Nationalist but few are stupid enough to not see through that. Svobda are now in parliament and are National Socialist so there is enough evidence to say that the violence was Nazis killing people. Right Sector who killed the people in Odessa are also openly Nazi but more in a football hooligan way.

@SamuelJohnson I am sorry as from your pro war stance I had assumed your were from the US. My gran was Irish although my family is predominately Scottish. None of what I say is lies, much of it is what I have seen and from people I know and still talk to from my time out there. If you respect the right to self determination how can you support the result of a violent coup by a minority? You cite western propaganda but one of the things I learnt when I lived in the FSU is that the people out there know that it is all propaganda. The problem in the west is that we believe that our politicians are telling us the truth. Every time you read the BBC where it mentions the war it does not say "the war in Ukraine", an objective reference, it say "Russia's all our invasion" or some such biased term. Prior to the Iraq war we used to get objective news and were allowed to look at the facts but now we only get propaganda. Yes, I have toned down but you still see me as the enemy because I want peace and you want war. The war is over really, it is just the fighting that continues. Russia has what it wanted but Putin would like to take more. The Russian people have no wish for more and now would be a good time to gain peace but the warmongers want more. More death and destruction that mean it will be impossible for Ukraine to recover. The young people will not return to the war zone, they have jobs in nicer places. The US will take the farm land in payment for the weapons. The country has been destroyed and you will see that as Russia but it began before 2014 and Ukraine is simply a proxy for the US to fight Russia. I accept that you think of me as a Russian fan but I was in Georgia when the Russians arrived and am no fan but I do prefer an end to war.