In the Ukraine War we support Russia. This is for several reasons:

1- It wasnt Russia that started this war deliberately, it was the US, 8 years ago. In 2014, the US staged a coup d’etat in Ukraine to overthrow the democratically elected president Viktor Yanukovych and install a puppet government that would do their bidding. This coup was led by literal neonazis like Oleh Tyahnybok, leader of the neonazi party Svoboda and who was standing right next to US senator John McCain as he was giving a speech in support of the Maidan protests in Kiev. This ukrainian nazi movement dates back to WW2 when Stepan Bandera, a ukrainian nazi, fought with the nazis against the USSR in the war and participated in the Holocaust killing jews, poles and russians. On his orders, up to 200k people were killed.

Bandera is worshipped by these neonazis and he is in fact officially considered National Hero of Ukraine by the ukrainian government. This new nazi government started pushing an aggressive antirussian agenda on US orders, including inside the country. This included attacking the ukrainian russian minority which represents 30% of the population and are a majority in East Ukraine (Donbass) and Crimea. This included banning the russian language in schools and media and banning the political parties that represented them. When this happened they protested and were brutally repressed, like in the Odessa massacre where 50 communist and russian protesters were burned to death with molotov cocktails by state supported neonazi gangs.

So the russians took up arms and defended themselves, also asking Russia for support, which they got. Russian troops (which were already there since Russia had always had a military base in Crimea at Sevastopol) protected the protesters in Crimea from the nazi gangs and allowed them to hold a referendum on joining Russia or staying in Ukraine, in which people overwhelmingly voted to join Russia. In Donbass, protesters seized weapons and declared independence, proclaiming the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. In response, the nazi government created literal neonazi battalions (Azov Battalion, Right Sector, Aidar, C14), armed them and sent them to Donbass where they have been bombing and genociding the russians ever since. Indiscriminate cruelty against civilians became the norm and was a strategy openly used by Ukraine. In the words of then ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko “Our children will go to school, theirs will stay hidden in the basement all day! Thats how we will win this war!”.

Unlike the western narrative, Russia was initially very careful, and refused to recognize the new republics. Russia negotiated a ceasefire and a peace agreement in Minsk, but Ukraine refused to implement it to this day. It was only after 7 years of genocide and after Ukraine was preparing to launch a full scale invasion of Donbass that Russia launched its special military operation and entered the war.

2- The US is doing this to encircle and eventually coup Russia itself to take its natural resources under the control of american corporations. This began in the 90s with the expansion of NATO up to the borders of Russia. Vladimir Putin isnt a communist nor antiamerican, all he ever wanted was good relations with the west. But the west has always refused this because they want Russia to be under their boot. Russia allowed NATO expansion for decades and chose to be diplomatic, but now its reached a limit. Now Ukraine and Georgia also want to join (after having their governments couped and a puppet installed), which is unacceptable. The US didnt allow Cuba to have soviet nuclear missiles, so why should Russia allow Ukraine? All Russia asked was “Ukraine dont join NATO and stop the genocide in Donbass”, but they refused. All they are doing is defending themselves. As communists, we can never support the US, the main imperialist power, to expand its influence and control, so we must support Russia.

3- Russia is a key ally of the communists. Sure, Vladimir Putin isnt a communist nor does he like us. But Russia is a key ally of the communist countries like China and Cuba. The current enemy of communists is the west (US and EU), and without Russia we cant defeat it, so we must support it. Also Russia is much closer to communism than any western country or Ukraine. In Russia communism is insanely popular and communist leaders like Lenin and Stalin are widely supported. The main opposition party in Russia is the Communist Party, whose popularity grows election after election. Communism is so strong in Russia that even Putin is forced to pay some lip service to it by honoring Lenin, Stalin and the Soviet Union, otherwise his popularity would plummet and he would lose the elections to the Communist Party. Youll never hear Putin saying “the Soviet Union was totalitarian” or some other lie like you do in the west. Meanwhile in Ukraine, after the coup communism was banned and the members of the Communist Party of Ukraine (which was the 4th most voted party before the coup) imprisoned or killed. Supporting Ukraine as a communist is pure nonsense.

4- Russia winning this war severely weakens the west. You already see it, because of the sanctions on Russia more and more countries are getting closer to China and away from the US. Countries like India, the Solomon Islands, Bolivia, Nepal, Iraq and more are refusing to condemn and sanction Russia. This war is speeding up the inevitable end of the US empire. This is good for communism.

Let me know if you have any questions on any of this, ill be happy to answer! Also to see clear evidence of the 2014 “revolution” being a US backed coup see the documentary Ukraine on Fire by Oliver Stone: https://youtu.be/LHH10jIRJmQ