Why is it so hard for the government there to understand? When you depose a government in a coup, you don’t automatically inherit everything possessed by the government you just overthrew. You only get what you can take and hold by force. If antifa gained control of DC in a coup, do people in Lubbock Texas now owe allegiance to the new government in DC? Ridiculous.
Every small group in the country possesses that same right to grab what they can and chose their future. After all, you in the coup used the same concept to gain the government yourself.
The point is that all of Ukraine rejected the coup government at this point, not only the East. The government fails to realize it and do that the mobs representing minority wants from them.