Nice try but the exact opposite is true. During the past 8 years, those ethnic Russians have been snatching other random ethnic Russians from the streets in the Donbas region to torture them for days to weeks. They're no more than a bunch of Kremlin-controlled thugs. There are plenty of eye witness reports to corroborate the horrendous human rights violations in the Donbas region by their self-proclaimed governors and their goons - and they are radical Russian nationalists aka Neo-Nazis.