No, I'm not ignorant of any facts. And this has been extensively documented in western media. https://archive.ph/BAxYc

The regime that got in power started doing these kinds of things to people of Donbas, as was openly reported by CNN at the time.

Now, let's take a look at a few slides from this lecture that Mearsheimer gave back in 2015 to get a bit of background on the subject. Mearsheimer is certainly not pro Russian in any sense, and a proponent of US global hegemony. First, here's the demographic breakdown of Ukraine:

here's how the election in 2004 went:

this is the 2010 election:

As we can clearly see from the voting patterns in both elections, the country is divided exactly across the current line of conflict. Furthermore, a survey conducted in 2015 further shows that there is a sharp division between people of eastern and western Ukraine on which economic bloc they would rather belong to:

Turns out that the civil war started exactly where the current line of contact is, and it started precisely because the nationalist regime the west installed started doing ethnic cleansing.

Rich coming from someone who only regurgitates Russian talking points verbatim.

Ah yes, Russian talking points as reported by western media. You're an utter clown.