I know enough folks in the region who know this first-hand, not to have to rely on MSM. Some things have been pretty well established by now.
I’ve personally listed evidence that Floyd had a bunch of issues that make the ‘murder’ evaluation highly contestable The Crazy Years - #3089 by eggspurt
As for the national interest, that’s a whole different topic - but the EU-US alliance is quite favorable for the US as well, so I doubt it’s purely humanitarian interests in this matter. I doubt Russia had humanitarian interests there either. There was an opportunity to make Russia an ally in the 90s and instead, the US squandered the opportunity by stepping on it while it was lying down in the mud - something that Russia hasn’t forgiven.
Even Putin was trying: Ex-Nato head says Putin wanted to join alliance early on in his rule | Nato | The Guardian – saw him ask George W. Bush about it during a summit in Europe personally in front of reporters.
So here we are now.