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The truth is that there is likely some truth to all side of this argument.
Ruark’s family says that life is fairly normal in their part of Ukraine.
My wife is a history teacher. She has a student whose family moved from Ukraine several years ago. They still have family there, and the last time they were able to communicate, those family members were being turned away at the Romanian border because Romania wasn’t taking any refugees. Their next option was to try and get to the border with Poland. Her family hasn’t been able to reach those relatives in over 3 days, and don’t know if they are even still alive.

My wife also mentioned that her class was discussing a sharp increase in the population of eastern Ukraine whose first language was Russian over the last several years. The speculation being the Putin has been sending Russians to live in Ukraine in order to increase the number of people who want to join Russia…speculation, I know, but it has been done by other countries in the past.

Putin didn’t wake up one day last week and decide that he was going to invade/liberate Ukraine. He is playing the long game, and likely doesn’t have the health and happiness of anyone as his primary motivation.