Irrelevant and not even remotely close to what I asked for. This is a story about Tucker Carlson sympathizing with Putin.
It is not a story explaining the reason why Russia felt it was necessary to conduct special military action in the Ukraine. It does not explain why Russia believes they are helping to liberate the DPR and LPR from nationalists and return the borders of the republics.
I can throw you tons of support and understanding for Russia and Donbass from western media, loads of people questioning the supplying of arms to Ukraine and the involvement of the West. But I don't have all day for that.
Let's be reciprocal: please link any Russian media article (that isn't from Novaya Gazeta, where journalists routinely suffer "unexplainable" deaths) that suggests that Putin has ever done anything wrong, you know, without sugarcoating it in any way.
Seems like you’re grasping at straws if you have to resort to digging up 7 year articles to prove your point.
If there are really “tons” of stories explaining the Russian perspective on this matter why don’t you show me ONE recent story that takes the latest developments into account?
> Irrelevant and not even remotely close to what I asked for.
Only if one is too stupid to read it. It's not supposed to show that the Washington Post sympathizes with Putin.
> This is a story about Tucker Carlson sympathizing with Putin.
Exactly. You have not only Tucker Carlson but the whole Fox "News" network and other similar organisations in the USA and in Europe sympathizing with Putin.
> It is not a story explaining the reason why Russia felt it was necessary to conduct special military action in the Ukraine.
Russia didn't feel it was necessary to conduct a "special military action" in "the" Ukraine; it felt it was necessary to conduct a war in [no article] Ukraine.
Here, shock yourself.