but you can push all others between you and the crock. let's start with ukraine, then romania, moldavia, ... and slovakia (they will join voluntarily as always).
I don't live that far and remember those things personally.
Of course I can't know everything, but everything you've mentioned is by no means ukraine's invention. Not to mention that in 90s and 10s ukraine was basically run by russian organized crime.
I don't think they were that different from russia, but they wanted to distance themselves from soviets' legacy and that's what triggers putin and similar gerontocrats (like trump).
people here telling stories about rotten west praising "good and pure" russia somehow still thing that if something is bad the other side must be good. no it's not.