the west have always seen russia as the bad guys, in everything basically
i totally understand them having felt isolated in europe
while Ukraine despite internal problems, always get supported, always get the sympathies, nothing what is wrong in ukraine that sort of propaganda, but at least i know what is really going on, denying donetsk, lugansk independence is kinda fascist, nazi alike traits, so what if those two regional governments have pro-russian views, allow russian language usage in the country, not everyone has to be like Kyiv just because Kyiv happens to be the capital
and it also wasn't a invasion in the beginning of this, was just russia offering defensive help to donetsk, lugansk but if that is seen as an ''invasion'' by the biased west
and as if Putin is a bad leader, and i am sure he isn't a complete madman either, he knows how to use nuclear weapons to get what he wants, as a nice way to get ukraine to stand down, he really don't want to destroy ukraine, he wants ukraine to be a part of russia again and you cannot do that once it is nuked