Whoops, I have no legitimacy because I am not condemning Russia or Putin in my preface to the overwhelming evidence of a Nazi Junta in Ukraine. I have to enter the discussion with "nothing excuses what Putin is doing". No amount of evidence or testimony will suffice, ever, to justify what Putin is doing. Because reasons, because to say otherwise is to say that war is a necessary way to resolve this, its necessary because the other side, has decreed this 8 years ago, and ever since have only terrorized the people of Ukraine and especially the Donbass region.
Exaggeration?
From the mouth of Nazis!
In early September 2014, the Azov Battalion was engaged in the Second Battle of Mariupol.[38] Regarding the ceasefire agreed on 5 September, Azov commander Andriy Biletsky stated: "If it was a tactical move there is nothing wrong with it ... if it's an attempt to reach an agreement concerning Ukrainian soil with separatists then obviously it's a betrayal."[39]
We get that you have a different view now. But perhaps it's more useful to compile the above in an article yourself instead of the monologue above?