Everything was okay until we broke it. Ukraine was governing itself through fair and free elections.
Elections were coming next year. Then the EU/US decided to take over by pouring billions of dollars to support a coup d’etat, and they got it, at the hands of armed neo-Nazis from the West Ukraine, which largely sided with Hitler.
The people in Crimea and South/East Ukraine don’t want a neo-Nazi regime. So they may leave.
That’s the funny thing about the Russian POV: the story for international consumption was that it was the neo-Nazis, and for domestic consumption, it was the Joos.