Well, this is a time where Dialectics (you can read about it concisely in Anarchism or Socialism by Stalin, he describes it as plainly and as directly as anyone could try) come into play. We can both support and refute a stance since we ourselves are not making active decisions on the matter. We can support Russia to the extent that they are anti-west imperialism, support them to the extent that they are defending Russian-ethnic Ukrainians in Donbass, and to the extent that they are fighting against Nazis. We support them to the extent that they have an active, growing and legal communist party and to the extent that the US has caused or helped to further a lot of these issues that Russia is opposed to(others here have correctly brought up the Euromaidan) and that Zelensky is corrupt af. We can repudiate Russia for themselves having corruption, for attacking civilians and the like. We can also repudiate Ukraine for arming non-uniformed civilians and for driving troops in Red Cross vehicles as well as not warning nearby areas of airstrikes, all of these are war crimes as dictated by the Geneva Convention and this has been happening since the start of the whole invasion. When Russia does something wrong, we don’t have to close our eyes, but we can look closer and usually find a problem that caused it. The invasion looks unprompted…until you learn about Donbass being bombed and the Alley of Angels(Аллея Ангелов). Russia looks like they are liars spreading false info of lab leaks… until you look closer and see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK196149/ and the same scientist mentioned is also hosting this presentation https://slideplayer.com/slide/8340108/ this is when you notice that while Russia does their propaganda as does every other nation, that it is not always lies and that the US themselves will put out info and lie about that public info years later hoping desperately that you will forget and that you will fly a Ukrainian flag. Using dialectics, we can come to the conclusion that while we don’t support Russia fully, we have to support them much more than we oppose them because of the reactionary forces that the opposition to Russia represents. We can understand their faults, as long as we recognize the opposition that creates many of those faults through their own action, like the Ukrainian nazi battalions fighting Donetsk and Luhansk, the Ukrainian civilians hurt is sad, but it was not unprompted and if Zelenskyy followed Geneva conventions from the start of this, he’d be more sympathetic(despite all the awful corruption and being content with Nazi battalions). Sorry for the long comment, but that’s why we support Russia to a decent extent