Fifteen minutes video is too long. The narrator references facts and people I am not familiar with, and I did not speak Russian for about 20 years. I understand that Tolek is a Russian citizen, a famous actor, who ended up fighting on the Ukrainian side in this war, but at some point, Ukrainians arrested him.

We had that in the history of Poland as well. In the 1970s, I attended a family event where around the table were old men who fought on all possible sides during WWII. Some Poles on the territory taken by Germany were conscripted into Wehrmacht. Those sent to the west front switched sides on the closest opportunity. Those sent to Stalingrad would not do it.

In Polish-Ukrainian history, there were many families where one of the brothers was a Polish patriot, and another was the Ukrainian one. Poles learned that it is OK for brothers to be different. If Russians accepted that their Ukrainian brothers should have the rights and liberties to be different, we would not have that conflict.

Still, I am interested in your take on my understanding of this conflict. If you want to be thorough, I posted eight articles.