Few in Ukraine – Including in the East — Support Separatism or Joining Russia, Poll Shows Paul Goble April 12, 2014 Print Friendly Staunton, April 12 – Vladimir Putin insists that his moves in Ukraine are motivated by a desire to protect ethnic Russians, Russian speakers and, Moscow’s latest category, “pro-Russian people” who do not want to live under Kyiv, a view that has been uncritically accepted by large numbers of Russians in the Russian Federation and by many in the West. But a new poll shows that few of the people on whose behalf Putin claims to be acting...