[Kinzua]

Precisely. They have repeatedly expressed their fervent desire through voting to preserve their religious beliefs, language, and culture. They were denied this basic human right. You’ve picked your team and now insist that they fight until their young men are more than decimated even to the point of forced conscription with no thought of the human or moral question. This is not a game. This isn’t our fight. The young men on both sides are as real as you and me. This isn’t some abstract argument or debate. Every dollar that we send now prolongs the very real suffering and death. As a rule, when someone wants to leave it’s best to allow it.

[Petrosius]

Did you even read my post? They did not vote to leave. Nor did they need to leave to preserve their religious beliefs, language, and culture. Contrary to Russian propaganda, the Russian language was not outlawed in public. The law merely stated that Ukrainian had to be used in state institutions and that it had to be used along with Russian in the media. The horror, that Russian could not be the only language used in the media! Even with this, however, Ukraine twice passed a law that would have granted Donbas autonomy, nullifying said law. Only Russian occupation prevented its implementation.