Sounds legit. Not. Take it out of your garbage and post some pics.
Also curious, where are you from and where did your friend travel overseas?
Gee where does the AFU operate
Not in russias self interest? How many countries has Putin invaded? You don't think that should be a concern to neighboring EU countries?
Russia has invaded the one country that has been their breadbasket and backyard for centuries, populated by ethnic Russians and host to still operating critical. Russian infrastructure. The one that was ripped out of their control by a violent color revolution to deliver it to the US/EU. Why should neighboring already-NATO countries be concerned about Russia stopping NATO expansion to the east?
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Ukraine isn't part of Russia, no matter how far back you attempt. Remember, Kiev is much older than Moscow.
Dear lord man....
Cool and they used to fight wars against the muslim expansion and against serf uprising, nobody cares and it has no impact on modern geopolitics. The history of the cossacks and their joining the nazis does. The history of ukraine being folded into russian from 1774 to 1991, and then still a satellite state until the maidan in 2014, that sure matters.
West Ukraine was a country with a pro-western minority living under a pro-Russian majority. The former led an anti-democratic revolution to throw out the elected leaders and had nazi groups establish a dictatorship. And you know what? The world can live with that, if they stayed in their own borders and dropped their unrealistic claim of jurisdiction over the east that voted to join Russia.