Russia is the aggressor here. It is quite simple.
All the eastern European countries wanted to join NATO because they are afraid of Russian invasion. Turns out they were right.
After that the oligarchs started arming extremists (Azov et. al.) to put the brakes on the inevitable retaliation by Russia.
Contrary to what your genocide supporting sources say, Ukrainians are actually able to protest with that being engineered by CIA.
A full-fledged war with Russia will begin in a couple of years - Alexei Arestovich (Mar 18, 2019)