A democracy and a fair judicial system is what the Donetsk and Lugansk republics want, which is why they seceded after the Nazi coup. The way to achieve that (after international organs failed to enforce a ceasefire) was through Russian support, and it's their right to ask for it and good on Russia for supporting them knowing sanctions and war would come to them for aiding them with more than empty rhetoric.

The Palestinian people probably wish they had a neighbor like Russia who's prepared to engage militarily when it becomes clear that imperialists only fear the violence they so eagerly inflict on the rest of us.

If you think Russia's intervention doesn't mean defense, ask yourself why the Ukrainian military was met with popular resistance while the Russian military was eagerly celebrated in Donbas.