Patrick Lancaster is one of the few people who do journalism on the ground in the Donbass region. He shows clear shell damage to civilian targets and interviews people and they say that they are being shelled by Ukrainians.

Even if we were to take that as 100% truth, how would it make Ukraine the instagator? Russia invaded the Donbas region years ago and there has been an ongoing shooting war (albeit a largely stalemated one) ever since. But Russia is still responsible for starting the war.

The current war did not start in a vacuum. Who backed the Maidan revolution in 2014? Who backed the regime change that just happened in Pakistan? Who keeps fighting for regime changes all over the Middle East leading to the deaths of millions? Who is going to be held accountable for all that needless loss of life?