The shelling of Donetsk (by Ukraine) after the Nuland revolution/coup started in 2014, you are right.
If you did in fact have a logical chronology of events you were championing, I suspect you'd post it, rather than lament what I am sharing.
But don't take my word for it, take radicals like Joe Rogan's most recent chat about the military re-conquest of Ukraine we were sponsoring in 2014.
It's all morally and ethically repugnant, and all but the most strident die hard partisan Democrats realize what a fiasco it has been and is. America has clearly repudiated the Biden "leadership" in Ukraine/Russia, including the philosophical and business justifications. Hunter would have no reason to have been pardoned, on a blanket basis, back to January 2014 but for the family's role in this quagmire of death.
When an Iowan asked Biden about Hunter's work in Ukraine back in December of 2019, the then-former VP
called the man "a damned liar" and challenged him to a push-up contest. Joe Biden followed-up with a
pledge to keep his own house in order if elected. LOL, yet again. Oh btw,
they also made nearly 6 million bucks from Chinese deals, between 2013 and 2018. So maybe some of that pre-dates the current pardon.