2008? wasn't that the invasion of Georgia?
Ukraine was invaded 2014 if I recall correctly.

Edit: yepp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War

  You're right!  The strange thing is, I knew that the Georgia (not Ukraine) invasion happened very shortly after the 2008 NATO conference in Bucharest where Georgia and Ukraine sought membership but that flag in the post confused me.  I did a bit of research and it turns out that imageshack.com might be replacing dead links with images of the Ukrainian flag with the text "No War" on them.

I will agree with you when there are Ukrainian (or American) troops inside (internationally recognized) Russian territory. Until then this is Russia invading Ukraine.

The US has invaded many territories that's true (Ukraine isn't one of them). These territories are all still in the hands of the local people. Russia takes over territories and makes it Russian territory, makes the people Russian citizens, steals babies, etc.

I thought Bitcoiners would be att :'(ached to the concept of sovereignty, but I guess not.

Pavel Filatyev knew the consequences of what he was saying. The ex-paratrooper understood he was risking prison, that he would be called a traitor and would be shunned by his former comrades-in-arms. His own mother had urged him to flee Russia while he still could. He said it anyway.

“I don’t see justice in this war. I don’t see truth here,” he said over a tucked-away cafe table in the Moscow financial district. It was his first time sitting down in person with a journalist since returning from the war in Ukraine.


“I am not afraid to fight in war. But I need to feel justice, to understand that what I’m doing is right. And I believe that this is all failing not only because the government has stolen everything, but because we, Russians, don’t feel that what we are doing is right.”

Two weeks ago, Filatyev went on to his VKontakte social media page and published a 141-page bombshell: a day-by-day description of how his paratrooper unit was sent to mainland Ukraine from Crimea, entered Kherson and captured the seaport, and dug in under heavy artillery fire for more than a month near Mykolaiv – and then how he eventually was wounded and evacuated from the conflict with an eye infection.

By then, he was convinced he had to expose the rot at the core of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “We were sitting under artillery fire by Mykolaiv,” he said. “At that point I already thought that we’re just out here doing bullshit, what the fuck do we need this war for? And I really had this thought: ‘God, if I survive, then I’ll do everything that I can to stop this.’”
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“It’s very important that someone became the first to speak out,” said Vladimir Osechkin, the head of the human rights network Gulagu.net, who helped Filatyev leave Russia earlier this week. That also made Filatyev the first soldier known to have fled Russia due to opposition to the war. “And it’s opening a Pandora’s box.”

This week the Russian investigative site iStories, which Russia has banned from the country, has published a confession from another Russian soldier admitting on camera to shooting and killing a civilian resident in the Ukrainian city of Andriivka.

Filatyev, who served in the 56th Guards air assault regiment based in Crimea, described how his exhausted and poorly equipped unit stormed into mainland Ukraine behind a hail of rocket fire in late February, with little in terms of concrete logistics or objectives, and no idea why the war was taking place at all. “It took me weeks to understand there was no war on Russian territory at all, and that we had just attacked Ukraine,” he said.