The conflict did not begin in 2022 by Russia. The only way the West has managed to gain and hold support has been by deceptively misrepresenting the reality of the situation in order to rally everyone around a perceived Evil. They don't bother describing what the people in the actual territories that asked for Russian support want. They don't bother describing how Ukraine has bombed its own people. They don't bother to describe how, partially due to Ukraine's abuses, several regions voted to join Russia. They don't bother to describe how Russia was invited by those fighting for their homes and families against Ukraine.

It's laughable that you totally omit the fact that Russia illegally annexed the Crimea back in 2014 and started this whole mess. Ukraine didn't just decide to start bombing its own people willy-nilly - it's because they were fighting off a foreign invader.

Regardless of the fact that some people in that region are Russian-speakers and sympathetic to Russia, that doesn't give Russia the right to waltz into a sovereign nation and take control of a large region of it.