Can't understand knowledgeable people in the west not questioning this truth.
@marathon0 two of these articles are in fact just commentary (blogs), one is not at all criticism to Ukraine/Zelensky - it's more about Trump, and one about corruption is from 2015 and if you read it, you would understand that it was "borrowed" problem from previous (pro-Kremlin) governments. Since 2015 the Corruption Perception Index was steadily going up.
So no, there is no twisting of the narrative. There are just criticisms of imperfect country, which haven't deserved to be invaded.
@marathon0 I was talking just about the articles you listed. You on the other hand are just trying to redirect to another bullshit that you found in the media which you never even tried to fact check.
So quickly:
1) Minsk agreements were violated both by separatists/ Kremlin and Ukraine side. But no one denies that Kremlin started all of it unprovoked by aiding separatist both with equipment and manpower on the territory of sovereign state (even Putin himself confirmed they were armed and supported by russian military). Count how many agreements they violated by just that.
2) Bandera group wasn't at all nazi. They were against basically anyone who was against their interests - sovereign state of Ukraine. They fought with and against Germany. Hitler used extremist groups like this everywhere when they needed. Bandera himself was imprisoned by nazi Germany and later refused to help them when he was asked to. They even had Jewish people fighting for them btw. You can look it up easily.
3) There is simply no nazi/ fascist regime in UA. I'm from Slovakia. No one speaks about us being fascist state although we have fascists in our own parliament (opposition). We know them very well. UA have literally zero fascist politicians in their parliament, not even talking about government. Their biggest fascist party got like 2% of the votes in the last elections. If UA is fascist, what are we then? Our fascists are pro-Kremlin btw...
4) Any kind of prosecution of russian-speaking people in UA is nonsense. Even Zelensky is native russian speaker. I know people that went to UA regularly and they spoke only russian and no one cared.
There was even an investigation by OBSE and other organizations that concluded that no genocide was happening on the east of UA.
Only Kremlin is talking about it and provides no proof.
You should start to question your sources of information. Since 2014 all the relevant institutions and organizations are denying Kremlin claims about how they were provoked to invade UA. There was not a single independent investigation that would conclude that Kremlin was right, but many of the contrary.
Please don't widen this conversation to million different topics if you choose to continue it...
