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Apparently they really, really, really don’t want to be part of “New Russia”.
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But the Eastern Donbass provinces do. When Vlad took back the Crimea, they experienced explosive growth, some 50 percent yoy growth. 380,000 Russians moved to Crimea. Many ethnic Russians were glad to shed the Ukie wide spread corruption.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/06/03/crimean-economy-named-fastest-growing-in-russia-a65851

Crimea’s growth in January-March 2019 was buoyed by construction and manufacturing, which grew by over 20 percent each, RBC cited research by the Institute for Complex Strategic Studies (ICSS) as saying.

Agriculture, retail and services in Crimea averaged 3 percent growth in January-March this year.

Construction in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol — Russia’s second-fastest growing economy — grew by almost 71 percent in January-March 2019, with agriculture, manufacturing, retail and services averaging 3.4 percent.

While Crimea and Sevastopol’s rapid growth means they are no longer the country’s poorest regions, they still rank near the bottom, Natalia Zubarevich, an expert in regional economics and a professor at Moscow State University, was quoted as saying.

“There’s an economic term called ‘base effect’ when, if your base is low, you grow faster; and when it’s high, [you grow] slower,” RBC quoted Zubarevich as saying. “It’s noticeable when you had nothing and it suddenly grows, especially with budget money.”

The Leningrad region — with construction up by 130 percent — came in as Russia’s third-fastest growing economy. The North Caucasus republics of Ingushetia and Chechnya grew at the fourth and fifth-fastest clips in January-March 2019.”
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That’s 20 percent ( others cite 40 percent) year over year. The Ethnic Russian Crimea is reaping benefits under a Vlad that were non existent with the Ukies. The same will be when the Donbass provinces have their Independence from Ukraine recognized.

"...380,000 Russians moved to Crimea. Many ethnic Russians were glad to shed the Ukie wide spread corruption."

My, my...I wonder whose land was stolen to make a place for those 380,000 Russians. Sounds like "colonialism" to me.