[McGruff]

Here's a solution where nobody gets hurt.

The red part becomes Wset Russia. The Euro Weenies can have the blue part.

[FreeReign]

Here's a solution where nobody gets hurt. The red part becomes Wset Russia. The Euro Weenies can have the blue part.

Here's a simple solution: Folks in Eastern Ukraine don't want to be part of Russia.

[cherokee1]

Too many oil/gas pipelines run thru West UK for that kind of split to last long——I expect that split is just a way-point for where Pootin would like to go.

[Cronos]

Your map is not that simple. Crimea was majority ethnic Russia, but what you have mapped as Eastern Ukraine is not majority Russian. It has Russian speakers, who are large, but not a majority in all states and also the Russian speakers can be Ukrainian as well.

Donetsk Oblast is the most pro-Russian, but Kharkhiv and Luhask are close behind. Odessa and others are definitely mixed.