Sadly, both Ukrainians and Russians in Donestk and Lugansk are being affected by the shelling of civilian settlements by the Ukrainian armed forces.
I stand for peace between the people of Ukraine and Russia and have no time for the leadership of either nation.
I'm not taking any side. As a historian I try to ascertain the facts objectively. I studied the history of fascism for my doctoral thesis so I know only too well about the Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera and the many war crimes he and his organization were responsible for.
Terms such as Nazi and fascist should not be used lightly but I am sorry to say that in Ukraine there is a minority of the population who have an affiliation to neo-Nazism. It is not just in Ukraine that neo-fascism has emerged in recent decades. In Germany neo Nazis have made a resurgence with the Alternative for Germany party which denies the genocidal crimes of the Wehrmacht in World War 2.