here is list of countries " innocent Russia " invaded and occupied for some who need history lesson
Russia has invaded and occupied several countries since 1920, including:
- Soviet invasion of Azerbaijan and Armenia in 1920
Red Army invasion of Georgia in 1921
Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939
Soviet occupation of the Baltic States in 1940
Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in 1940
Soviet invasion of Manchuria in 1945
Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008
Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022
Russia has also occupied parts of neighboring states since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, including:
Transnistria in Moldova
Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia
Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine
I could add they annexed Konigsberg ( they renamed it Kaliningrad) area after WW2 and not planning to leave it anytime soon.