They have a skewed vision of reality due to government censorship

It's all rainbows and sunshine when it's not happening to you. You can have all the stupid opinions you want. But when something bad happens to you, that's when the crying starts.

Fascists

I've been under the impression that China and the US wants the precedent so they can do the same themselves

I'm putting this behind a spoiler, because it seems like a good faith question but I also expect many people don't want to see an answer.

:::spoiler click here

From the pro-Russia perspective (though I consider myself neutral), the separatists had the right to secede, the DPR was a legitimate state, and Ukraine sending troops to suppress them was "forcing itself into their sovereign land." If the DPR was a legitimate state, that would mean that Russia was simply responding to their request for military aid.

So, everything depends on the question of whether the DPR, and whether Ukraine, were/are legitimate states.

From the pro-Ukraine perspective, the separatists were always just Russian proxies, armed men who seized government buildings and held an illegal and rigged vote, while the Ukranian government is a democracy representing what the people really want.

However, the pro-Russia side would counter that the Euromaidan uprising was controlled by American proxies, and involved armed men seizing government buildings and then holding an illegitimate vote to oust the president. Then, they proceeded to ban the opposition parties popular in eastern Ukraine, denying them a chance to voice their positions, or to persue secession through peaceful, legal means.

So, the question of who is legitimate depends on which armed men seizing government buildings you read as foreign proxies vs representing genuine popular will.

The reason why I consider myself neutral is simply that I treat both groups of armed men seizing government buildings with equal skepticism. Perhaps they're both fully proxies and it's just a proxy war, or perhaps they both legitimate, and the people in the disputed regions genuinely wanted to secede. But I'm not willing to treat one group of armed men seizing government buildings as legitimate and the other as proxies, without good reason, because I consider that biased.

But there does seem to be at least some genuine support for secession in the east and if that's the case I fail to see why they shouldn't be allowed to leave. If there wasn't, then Ukraine wouldn't have banned opposition parties. If Ukraine wants them in their country then they shouldn't have restricted their voice in government.

Algeria appearing ever so slightly more pro-Russia than Russia is based.

Seems kinda on the high end tbh.

I believe the "correct" response to questions like these in Russia is "it is none of my business."

maybe they just don't know that much about it, I could see why their local state run media would probably rather focus on internal new, and about they sending some soldiers to the front, it is probably more about testing their strategies and training than to support any side, same thing goes for the chinese soldiers which those I think were volunteers, but they probably got approval and support and probably were asked to send reports back home about how is it going, again to collect data about their performance of their doctrine and combat strategies in practice, before WW2 many countries did the same or used opurtunities to help foreign states as also a training ground