[DRG]

As I have said before "It's complicated". That's the reason there are differing POV as above

The ONLY innocents are the children and there are false narratives being spread on both sides but it does appear that a Zelensky leaning Ukraine toward the EU and perhaps as a "future" NATO member is viewed in Russia no differently than Russian missiles in Cuba were viewed by the US nearly 60 years ago.

i.e. "intolerable"

That would, as I have already stated in another post, put a NATO nation border less than 300 km from the Volga. If I were Russian I would be a little more than just "concerned" about that.