Eastern Ukraine is being totally manipulated by Putin’s KGB-FSB and gangsters. there’s no “spontaneous uprising”, just Russian thugs intimidating the local population.
It’s no coincidence that the eastern part has the coal mines and industry - Russia has been greedily eyeing this area for a long time.
“Eastern Ukraine is being totally manipulated by Putin’s KGB-FSB and gangsters.”
The same thing happened in West Virgina during the ‘civil War’ yet West Virgina is still a separate state than Virginia. Washington has no ground to stand upon there.