In 2014, CNN reported that Ukraine's president was killing his own people in Donetsk:

“We are Ukrainian, but they kill us, so we probably need our own country. Because these people in Kyiv, they are not brothers for us.”https://t.co/Us0Pmtup35 pic.twitter.com/gw97EgP5Sx

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 28, 2023