For anyone still in doubt the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine spells it out. This war did not start in Feb 2022 but in 2014.


Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine @CinC_AFU

We are waging a war against the country whose size is 28 times larger than ours, whose population is 4 times larger than ours, whose military capabilities are many times greater than ours. We have been at war not for 8 months, but for 8 years and 8 months.

BTW, here he is wearing a rather fetching piece of jewellery,