It was fueled by the puppet dictator installed by the west who nationalized all media in Ukraine & banned/jailed all political opposition & then enslaved all Ukrainian men between 18 & 40 to fight a war for the US with the goal of overthrowing Putin so that Russian oil will trade only for dollars. And every time Russia has an offer for peace the west prevents it because they don't want peace & the more men they kill in Ukraine the better it is for their sex trafficing schemes.