Now imperialist military conquest is called “liberation”. Doublespeak at his finest.
People in lugansk wanted to be part of Ukraine. In 2014, the last reliable pool showed 70% of the interviewed wanting to be part of Ukraine.
In general what people in lugansk wanted was being part of an independent Ukraine with extensive regional autonomy and frictionless economic integration with Russia. What they got is invasion from Russia, coercive legal assimilation, property confiscation, human abuses, forced conscription.