what reason did coveney travel to kjiv

If you don't believe there was a pair of them in it as far as atrocities in the Donbas I've some magic beans to sell you. The UN and Red Cross reports into that conflict would disagree with your simplistic reading of it. Where they putinbots?

You want to believe that because the Ukrainians are the "good guys" now, because of Russian aggression. And yes it was Russian aggression that inflamed that already tense area by supporting their seperatists, just as the Ukrainians supported their nationalists and both were happy to use far right groups to do it, Wagner on one side, Azoz on the other(if you also don't believe groups like Azoz aren't far right groups I've an even bigger bag of magic beans to sell you). However the conflict in that region didn't magically happen. There was already plenty of dry tinder for the Russians to light. There's a very good reason the Russians decided to support a side there and not in the north of the country. As I said the UN and Red Cross, hardly biased sources, noted atrocities on both sides since 2014. It is way too simplistic to merely dismiss it as it was all the Russians doing, or the Ukrainians for that matter, as Russia has painted it. It has strong enough parrallels with our own Troubles up North and it would have been extremely simplistic to paint that as all the IRA's fault, or all the Unionists.

There were some prods by Russian forces since 2014, but they haven't been "repeatedly hammered" or anything like it until Russia invaded this year. Never mind you ignoring independent world class agencies who have stated that both parties were involved in kidnappings, bombings, extra judicial murders throughout that conflict. You still stick to the one sided hopelessly simplistic script and one I'd be willing to bet like most of us you've only lately picked up and read. I get the one side aspect as I also support Ukraine's right to exist and thrive as an independent state without the threat of putin's bootboys, but I'm not automatically blinded to her own issues, or actual historical facts. Ask yourself why Russia specifically formented conflict in that particular area of Ukraine and not another. Or just stick with the jingoism.