[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

I’m sure Russia has operatives in Ukraine, but as the article states, clearly most of these people are disgruntled locals. 48% of the voters voted for Yanukovych in the last election. Many of them won’t accept that their candidate was chased out of office in a coup, just like many people in America wouldn’t.

There was no coup. The interim government in Ukraine is the Ukrainian Rada that was democratically elected in 2012. Yanukovych did not run on a Pro-annexation, Anti-EU platform, and his party turned on him. 65 to 75 percent in multiple polls in the East and South show an overwhelming majority oppose annexation and separatism, including polls taken as recently as this month.

[Monmouth78]

You fail to grasp that there is a position in between outright successionism and support for the coup regime.

[tcrlaf]

You say Po-Ta-To, the rest of the world says potato.

It was a coup. To say anything else is just ridiculous spin.

[goldstategop]

The Party Of Regions doesn’t see its demands being addressed. Both ethnic Ukrainians and Russians in the East want a federal state. If they don’t get it, the country will break up.

So far they have heard nothing from Kiev but vague promises. People want change and that demand is not coming not Moscow or being orchestrated by it.