Another difficulty lies with Ukrainian soldiers who are married to ethnic Russians, and therefore susceptible to being suborned.
Ethnic Ukrainians in the East speak Russian and are not overly fond of Kiev. The region has an overall ethnic Ukrainian majority but every one speaks and understands Russian. Its a world away from Ukrainian-speaking Lvov, the center of the Maidan.
Yup, them people who get along with one another are the real reason people can't get along with one another and they're obvious threat to the "leadership". A "leadership" who couldn't wait on elections but now want others to wait on elections and who said the people they threw out were imposing their will by force but who now freak out because they can't impose their will by force.
You do realize you're claiming the Keystone Cops are the rightful rulers of the Ukraine, don't you?