Ironically (and this also shows how ignorant you people are), all "separatist" leaders who took over Lunhask and Donbass, who did so at the direction of the Russian government, with ties to the Russian FSB or were actually members of the FSB (like Igor Girken aka Igor Strelkov), were themselves actual Nazis or extreme nationalists with sympathies for Naziism. For example, here is the late Governor of the Donbass with other "separatists" posing in Swastikas before they entered into Ukraine:

https://www.rferl.org/a/gangsters-and-fascists-and-separatists----oh-my/25411895.html
You got something besides from Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty in the midst of the Obama years?
Our guys are “freedom fighters.”
Got it.
However...
If you look at Eastern Ukraine, you cannot get around some basic facts.
The East sees itself as Russian, not Ukrainian.
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/640/mcs/media/images/73094000/gif/_73094671_ukraine_divide_2.gif
They speak Russian, they vote for the pro Russian candidate (in every election, not just that one), they side with the Russian forces (not Ukraine) i.e. why the FSB could recruit these guys and why the Russians are “celebrated” in some towns they are taking in the Ukraine (but our MSM don't show that - doesn't fit our narrative)...
It is “us” that had to reach down into the dredges in order to find folks willing to fight (i.e. the infamous Azov unit). “We” are the ones that recruited Nazi tatted former criminals...
https://img.ilgcdn.com/sites/default/files/styles/lg/public/foto/2022/05/22/1653238789-1488.JPG
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHego3hWEAAGpWS.png
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Gd0XX_yXSwY/maxresdefault.jpg
https://preview.redd.it/qxg20n2wrv091.jpg?auto=webp&s=f816f3c28fb4000800ae5c3a10893eedad3798be
Not one or two... Not 10 or even 100. We literally went out and got folks that may as well have come from a federal prison, trained them with our SF for years, armed them with javelins, night vision, radios, bused them in from Western Ukraine... and then make claims like you are...