It appears you are ignorant of the "Minsk" agreements, and the "Grey Line"
Yes Ukraine camped the grey line, planting untold mine fields around it, Zelenskyy bombed innocent civilians within this "Minsk" Donbas boundry for the past 3 years without stopping
And the russians and the separatists have been bombing Ukrainian civilians for the past three years without stopping. Actually since 2014! Russia and its lackeys in teh Donbass have played fast and loose with the truth and apparently snookered you in to believing them.
Here is an independent look at howe both sides did not abide by the Minsk Protocols and how Russia lied through their teeth.
From Wiki:
The
war in Donbas,
[note 1] or the
Donbas War, is an armed conflict in the
Donbas region of
Ukraine, part of the broader
Russo-Ukrainian War. In March 2014, immediately following the
Euromaidan protest movement and subsequent
Revolution of Dignity, protests by pro-Russian, anti-government
separatist groups took place in the
Donetsk and
Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine, collectively called the Donbas. These demonstrations began around the same time as Russia's
annexation of Crimea, and were part of wider
pro-Russian protests across southern and eastern Ukraine. Declaring the
Donetsk and
Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR, respectively),
armed Russian-backed separatist groups seized government buildings throughout the Donbas, leading to armed conflict with the Ukrainian government forces.
[32]
While the initial protests were largely native expressions of discontent with the new Ukrainian government, Russia took advantage of them to launch a coordinated political and military campaign against Ukraine.
[33] Russian citizens led the separatist movement in Donetsk from April until August 2014, and were supported by volunteers and
materiel from Russia.
[34][35][36] As the conflict escalated in May 2014, Russia employed a "
hybrid approach", deploying a combination of disinformation, irregular fighters, regular Russian troops, and conventional military support to destabilize the Donbas.
[37][38][39]
Ukraine launched a military counter-offensive against pro-Russian forces in April 2014, called the "
Anti-Terrorist Operation" (ATO) from 2014 until 2018, when it was renamed the "Joint Forces Operation" (JFO).
[40]: 4
[41] By late August 2014, this operation was able to vastly shrink the territory under the control of pro-Russian forces and came close to regaining control of the
Russia–Ukraine border.
[42] In response, Russia abandoned its hybrid approach and began a conventional invasion of the Donbas.
[42][43] Following reports of Ukrainian positions being shelled from the Russian side of the border, between 22 and 25 August 2014, Russian artillery, personnel, and what Russia called a "humanitarian convoy" crossed the border. Russian crossings reportedly occurred both in areas that were controlled by pro-Russian forces and those that were not, such as the south-eastern part of Donetsk Oblast, near
Novoazovsk.
[44][45] Head of the Security Service of Ukraine,
Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, called the events of 22 August a "direct invasion by Russia of Ukraine",
[46] while other Western and Ukrainian officials called it a Russian "stealth invasion".
[45] Russia's official position on the presence of Russian forces in the Donbas has been vague; while official bodies have denied the presence of "regular armed forces" in Ukraine, it has on many occasions confirmed the presence of "military specialists", along with other euphemisms, usually accompanied by an argument that Russia "was forced" to deploy them to "defend the Russian-speaking population."
[47][48]
As a result of the Russian invasion, DPR and LPR insurgents regained much of the territory they had lost during the Ukrainian government's preceding military offensive.
[40] Ukraine, Russia, the DPR and the LPR signed a ceasefire agreement, the
Minsk Protocol, on 5 September 2014.
[49] Violations of the ceasefire on both sides became common. Amidst the solidification of the line between insurgent and government-controlled territory during the ceasefire,
warlords took control of swaths of land on the insurgent side, leading to further destabilisation.
[50] The ceasefire collapsed in January 2015, with renewed heavy fighting across the conflict zone, including at
Donetsk International Airport and at
Debaltseve. Involved parties agreed to a new ceasefire, called
Minsk II, on 12 February 2015. Immediately following the signing of the agreement, separatist forces launched an
offensive on Debaltseve and forced Ukrainian forces to withdraw from it. In the months after the fall of Debaltseve, minor skirmishes continued along the line of contact, but no territorial changes occurred. The stalemate led to the war being labelled a "
frozen conflict".
[51] Despite this, the area remained a war zone, with dozens of soldiers and civilians killed each month.
[52] In 2017, on average one Ukrainian soldier died in combat every three days,
[53] with an estimated 6,000 Russian and 40,000 separatist troops in the region.
[54][55] By the end of 2017, the
OSCE observatory mission had counted around 30,000 individuals in military gear crossing from Russia to the Donbas at the two border checkpoints it was allowed to
monitor.
[56] The OSCE has also documented many cases of military convoys crossing from Russia into the occupied Donbas on dirt roads, away from official border crossings and usually at night.
[57]
end part 1.
