Did Russia not bomb the hell out of the Syrians? Are they still then considered to be innocent for doing so?
Anyway what have those wars got to do with the Donbas Russian Separatists that are battling to breakaway from Ukraine? The Separatists never ever lived up to the Minsk Agreement themselves and were being armed and trained by the Russian Military all along to carry out the sporadic attacks on the Ukrainian Army!! But explain why did Putin constantly lie about invading Ukraine, especially when the warning alarm bells were sounded by the NATO Alliance? Why did he then say that the Mission to Donbas was supposed to be "Peaceful" although we have seen him invading the whole of Ukraine and bombing the hell out of civilian establishments and residential buildings? The lives lost including downing of a civilian aircraft was Russia and the Separatists being totally at fault in the Donbas Region. In June of 2021 Biden and Putin agreed to pursue a diplomatic effort to resolve the situation in the Donbas Region. In fact Ukraine fulfilled the Russian demand to withdraw the controversial draft law for the reintegration of the Donbas and Crimea Regions. On February 16th, 2022 the Russian spokesperson said that the LPR and DPR Recognition was not on the books as it was not in keeping with the Minsk Agreements. But lo and behold, on the 21st February Russia declared the regions as "People's Republics". A day later Putin came up with that disgusting statement that the Minsk Agreements no longer existed. It was no surprise that he sent the troops in to try and bomb the hell out of Ukrainians as well as attempt to establish an Autocratic Puppet Ukrainian Government with the abolition of Democracy in that nation.
But show us your evidence where the 14000 lives lost were just the "Russian" Separatists" and no Ukrainian civilians or Army personnel either living in that region or trying to defend the Residents of Donbas?