ichabod1 to TEXOKIE
You can think of Ukraine in East-West terms. The western part of the country is pro-West, pro-NATO, pro being a separate country and ANTI remaining in the Russian orbit. The eastern side of the country has a lot more people who moved there from Russia when it was all soviet, so they have deep family ties with and warm feelings for Russia. It doesn’t help, though, when Russia offers practically any Ukrainian dual citizen-ship so he can pack the east with people who would rather align with Russia. That’s how he justified the in the province of Crimea.
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Thank you so much for that insight, Ichabod1!
Where it gets confusing is that it seems that the Western backed faction is just as corrupt as the Russian Federation backed faction, so it really is hard to tell who the good guys are. The guy who just got elected is an outsider and he got like 75% of the votes in a runoff election. Cheez, Google did NOT want to give me the information that he had won, kept directing me back to the original election, not the runoff.