This is completely wrong. 14000 people died on all sides during a separatist rebellion where a Russian sponsored army, including thousands of personnel and heavy weapons, seized territory within sovereign Ukraine and the Ukrainian armed forces had to take back and defend their own territory. This was a direct violation of the Budapest Memorandum treaty where Russia promised to respect ALL of Ukraine's territory. Ukraine wasn't "shelling" "these people" for fun or nefarious purposes, they were fighting a foreign sponsored terrorist army to protect their own people.