I mean you can just say shit if you want, but here in reality the shelling from Ukraine into Donbas intensified like threefold in the two weeks leading up to the "start" of the war. The massacre stopped when the Russian army rolled in. There was an ongoing hexbesr megathread about it in the weeks before, because unlike liberals communists have pattern recognition and object permanence, and therefore have no need to just vibe out and make things up to support whatever argument we're trying to make at the time. We were paying attention to this shit while you guys were at brunch.