It is Western Ukraine that is providing most of the opposition to Putin. The far-Eastern Ukraine has essentially seceded from Ukraine back in 2014. Eastern Ukraine hates the Ukrainian government.
I don’t know.
I think Putin is stirring things up there. It would be interesting to see if somehow you could get some fair voting in those regions to see what the people actually favor.
But I’m also not buying that Putin only wants the eastern oil rich parts.
He clearly amassed an invasion force to take all of Ukraine.
And the Belarusian leader showed a map that has Russia taking all of Ukraine and Moldavia.
Putin could have stationed much fewer forces in eastern Ukraine, without all of this blood shed. Putin clearly wants it all.
Sadly and that it has to even be stated that there are few true Ukrainians in Eastern Ukraine because they’ve been massacred and replaced with ethnic Russians 100 years ago Just like the Turks did in Armenia
So all the soldiers fighting Russia are from Western Ukraine? And the ones in the East are leaving and joining forces with Russia?
Actually a violent, Russian sponsored separatist group split from the rest of Ukraine in 2014. Not surprisingly the rest of the country has been fighting with them. A similar thing happened in the USA in the mid 1800s and the southerners found that the northerners wanted to keep the country intact as one nation.
Those who champion the secession of the eastern Ukraine should also denounce Lincoln and fly the flag of the Confederacy. How about you impimp, do you fly the flag of the Confederacy?
This is true.
then why didn’t Puttie stop when he got the ‘far-eastern’ territory that wants to be Russian under his control again? Why is Russia attacking other cities that don’t want to be Russian?