My point is that you are using a very strange and manipulative argumentation trying to present the war in Ukraine as a dispute over territories. It has nothing to do with that. The war is not about a few border disputed regions, it is an existential war for the future of Ukraine as a nation and the future of Kremlin's regime as an anti-Ukrainian (and anti-Russian) criminal kleptocracy. No one in Moscow cares about the fate of Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson, it is enough to look at the "liberated" cities in these regions, wiped off the face of the earth, to be convinced of this.

As I have already written above, the borders of Ukraine were not established by Ukrainians, but these are the internationally recognized borders of 1991, which exist as a result of the collapse of the USSR. The principles of international law are in any case more important than manipulations with the ethnicity, language and identity of the local population of the disputed regions, which are generally impossible to determine in conditions of war and humanitarian catastrophe.