You should be able to read it in the modlog still.

It’s also worth remembering Russia’s position in the peace talks that started immediately after the war began:

Few now remember that the war almost ended before it got going. On February 24, 2022, Russia launched ground and air attacks on Ukraine on four fronts. On February 28, 2022, Russian and Ukrainian officials came together in Gomel, Belarus, to start to negotiate peace. Peace talks continued intermittently for a month before being called off…

According to a New York Times analysis of the 2022 negotiations later that year… Russia demanded Ukrainian recognition of its annexation of Crimea in 2014, permanent Ukrainian neutrality, and autonomy for the ethnic Russian provinces, or oblasts, in eastern and southeastern Ukraine.

Russia never wanted to annex Ukraine wholesale. It didn’t even want any new territory.

What tanked these talks was not the Ukranian government, but their NATO puppetmasters:

An even bigger obstacle to further talks may have been the arrival in Kyiv on April 6 of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. According to Davyd Arakhhamia, Ukraine’s chief negotiator at Istanbul, “Johnson brought two simple messages to Kyiv. The first is that Putin is a war criminal; he should be pressured, not negotiated with. And the second is that even if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin, they [the NATO powers] are not.” Three days after Johnson returned home Putin announced publicly that talks with Ukraine “had reached a dead end.” For his part, Johnson promised Zelensky $130 million of military equipment and $500 million kin financial aid, while President Biden announced a $800 million military package to Ukraine.

They want a demilitarized, denazified zone encompassing their most vulnerable border, a totally reasonable desire for any state, especially one facing down the lying, bloodthirsty savages of NATO.

And this was promised to Russia upon the breakup of thr Soviet Union – Ukraine’s constitution calls it something like a “permanently neutral state.”

Then, after 20 years of NATO pushing east (and destroying countries like Yugoslavia and Libya), the U.S. backs a color revolution in Ukraine in 2014. Next you start hearing talks of Ukraine joining NATO and Russian speakers in Eastern Ukraine start getting attacked. Then Ukraine breaks the Minsk agreements (those same ones Angela Merkel admitted were a stall tactic to arm Ukraine for this very war).

You can disagree over whether this approaching hostility is justification for an invasion (the U.S. certainly would think so; it invaded Cuba over far less), but there’s really no argument that evil Putler just woke up one day and decided to do a land grab for reasons.

When you start locking protesters up for a year, they’re going to start doing something worth getting locked up for a year.