Yes, truth is a defense.

The grey area this law attempts to exploit is that terms like 'racist' have no absolute definition. The term can be used as a response to anything from 'i don't like Indian food' to 'Hilters views on the aryan race were right'.

Take the Indian food example. If you were you say that, and I called you a racist for it, is that a matter of opinion on my behalf or a fact that is the basis of a defamation suit?

No way. That would fuck over way too many people who are just trying to live out their lives in the home they've built/purchased/inherited.

They where none stop shelling Donbass

Yes, it so happens a civil war was being fought there.

But the majority of the fighting ended with the second Minsk accords. After 2017 on average only about a dozen people died a year from combat actions. So there couldn't have been much shelling going on in 2022.

How does a dozen or two deaths a year warrant an escalation to a hundred thousand deaths a year?

took away the rights of the Russian speaking population many times

Which rights, when did this happen? I'm honestly curious abuot this.

flagrantly violated both minsk accords.

Both sides did that. A lot.

But what does that have to do with Russia's 2022 invasion? Putin himself said that Russia would not get involved in the enforcement of the Minsk accords because it was an internal Ukrainian matter.

Also you are convenently forgetting that Russia has REPEATEDLY offered peace treaties,

Because Russia wants to not only keep the land they've invaded but also dictate the way Ukraine conducts it's diplomatic relations with other nations. Ukraine is fighting for it's sovereignty here. Russia is trying to take that away.

Oppressed how?

Across all sides (Civilian, Military, Ukranian and Russian), an estimated 150-200K people have died and half a million wounded since the start of the invasion in 2022.

What kind of oppression could possibly been having taken place that necessitates such an escalation?

I think the feature is cool and I'm looking forward to it personally.

Maybe they should have made it opt in, but social features like this on other platforms like discord and stream aren't, so .. eh.

God damned degenerates!

And go where?