Ukraine was a satellite of russia until 2014.
So fvcking what? Is Canada a satellite of the US? Is Poland a satellite of Germany?
How many Ukrainians ended you in Russian prisons before 2014?
How did Ukrainians suffer because Ukraine was a satellite of Russia?
BTW, it's Russia, not russia, idiot...
No intervention was needed then.
Because then Ukraine was not getting marching orders from Londonistan and the DC to get ready for a war with Russia. They were not planning to join NATO, either.
Russia did exactly what the US did during the Cuban crisis. It reacted to aggression. Duh!