No problem. Take the time to read through the links i provided and let me know if there is anything missing or anything that you need clarification on. I didn’t cover most of the SMO itself because i think what has happened since 2022 is rather well known.

I would say the least well known in the West is what was happening in the Donbass from 2014 onward. That has been totally suppressed in our media. The NATO expansion issue has been discussed a lot even in more mainstream sources, but to really understand the situation that led up to 2022 you need to see first hand the videos and hear the testimonies of the people who lived through it, which is why i think that the Donbass documentary (link in the first comment) is so important for people to see.

If you want to do some research on any of these topics yourself, keep in mind that Google is heavily censored and will almost exclusively display results that all parrot the same western mainstream media narrative on Ukraine, often word for word the same across dozens of publications. Use other search engines such as Yandex.

And Wikipedia is of course also a cesspool of propaganda on this topic, and like Reddit highly controlled by western intelligence agencies to align with the pro-Maidan, anti-Russian narrative, so be very cautious when using it as a source of information. It will very often lie by omission and will present the pro-Western side’s narrative as factual and objective while any other views are implied to be biased, controversial, untrustworthy, conspiracy theories, etc.