I was going to respoind and thank you for being among the few realistic responses to this article full of USofA media narrative - aka propaganda.
And then the first response I see is the author calling you a Russian troll.
And the next one calling you a bot.
The next: Russian indantile propaganda.
This really shows how shallow and desperate their painfully uninformed opinions are. As you said "simplistic" — and people like simplistic - children's boo good/evil narraives.
I am Ukrainian and have been reading like crazy these past few months about the conflict and how we got there. It is so obvious that the USofA had made this into a proxy war with Russia - dating back almost a decade ago. (I would direct them to the Newland/Pyatt phone call (Google it) from 2014 to start with - where you hear the USofA planning on how they will run the Ukrainian government.)
Anyway —
As to these people who respond to you with their "troll" nonsense, I recommend Caitlin Johnston's precise analysis of this disorder.