Please be aware, that the eastern Ukrainian separatists are outright communists that were brought into power by a russian government that's almost exclusively made up of former soviet personnel, wants to re-establish the soviet empire, and lies and cheats just like the soviets did. I've looked into it, and pretty much everything what the russian side has brought forward to convince people that their cause is just have been nothing but extremely stupid lies. Their strategy is that they bring forward unending and ever changing lies. Most people will think, that there must be some truth in it, because russians tell them with a straight face. The minority of people that take a deeper look into what they're saying will eventually come to the conclusion, that what the russkis say is nothing but utter bullshit. However, it takes some time to reach that conclusion, and when that happens, the narrative has already changed, so nobody cares that some people now can disprove last week's lies. The behavior of the russkis is extremely dishonorable, and proves everything right that Hitler said about them during the 1940s, even now, 75 years after his death. They're nothing but liars and cheats and the enemy of everything western and european.