Technically and legally not entirely correct. Donbass and Crimea have voted few times to separate from Ukraine. Russia has just recognized their status of independence and accepted their invitation to provide protection.
That was all after all other attempts to secure safety for ethic Russians in Ukraine failed, and after 8 years of genocide.
Again, completely incorrect on so many levels.
Serbs created Yugoslavia after being on a winning side in both World Wars. Nationalist Serbs say that Yugoslavia was the biggest mistake for Serbs, accepting losers like Slovenians and Croats - no, Serbs don’t want other people’s territory.
Yet, Serbs were the only ones that were not allowed self-determination in Yugoslavia.
Serbs have been cleansed from Coratia (from 15% of population to under 4%) large portions of Bosnia (specially Sarajevo) and Kosovo-Metohija (from 25% to under 5%).
Those are simple facts that you can easily check.
This is [NYT article from 1982 about ethnic cleansing of Serbs from Kosovo-Metohija](https://Russia is invading a sovereign country, murdering many of its citizens, kidnapping others, chasing locals who don’t support them out so they can hold fake referendums in which they also let Russian soldiers vote.). It was going on for very long time.
Civil wars are called that way because they are between civilian population of particular territory, so technically, there are no aggressors. And yes, Serbs were the victims. They don’t complain, though. All will get into its place eventually.
Talking of genocide:
> On April 30, 1941, the Ustaše proclaimed the main race laws, patterned after Nazi race laws – the “Legal Decree on Racial Origins”, the “Legal Decree on the Protection of Aryan Blood and the Honor of the Croatian People”, and the “Legal Provision on Citizenship”.[26] These decrees defined who was a Jew, and took away the citizenship rights of all non-Aryans, i.e. Jews and Roma. By the end of April 1941, months before the Nazis implemented similar measures in Germany, the Ustaše required all Jews to wear insignia, typically a yellow Star of David.[27] The Ustaše declared the “Legal Provision on the Nationalization of the Property of Jews and Jewish Companies”, on 10 October 1941, and with it they confiscated all Jewish property.[28]
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> The Ustaše enacted many other decrees against Jews, Roma and Serbs, which became the basis for Ustaše policies of genocide against Jews and Roma, while against Serbs – as proclaimed by an Ustaše leader, Mile Budak – the policy was to kill a third, expel a third, and forcefully convert to Catholicism a third,[29] which many historians also describe as genocide. The decrees were enforced not only through the regular court system, but also through new special courts and mobile courts-martial with extended jurisdiction.[30] Almost immediately the first concentration camps were set up, and in July 1941 the Ustaše government began clearing ground for what would become the Jasenovac concentration camp. - Wikipedia
Have in mind that Croatian “independent” state in WWII included Bosnia and parts of Serbia all the way to Belgrade.
Same as Ukrainians, Croats, Bosnian Muslims and Albanians on Kosovo-Metohija had their own SS divisions actively exterminating Serbs. Croats also fought with Nazis in Russia, very prominent in battle for Stalingrad.
Ustase came to power in Croatia in 1990s again. Policies have successfully carried out with great support from the West.
My father’s family was lucky - they were among the third that were expelled to Serbia. Millions were not as lucky.
All in all, Serbs are used to Western bulling and lies. Same story repeats for centuries. Empires come and go. American Empire will go too. It’s the matter of inevitability. No hatred from Serbs.
