You do know Mariupol voted 90%+ to break away from the Ukraine in 2014 and join the other independent provences...
And was brutally invaded and crushed by the Ukrainian military to include the beginning of the neo nazi Azov battalion. Then brutally occupied by them?
Hey...lookie that. History REPEATS!!!
You do know that Mariupol was still part of Ukraine, and it takes more than some local vote to break up a country, right?
I get that its complicated politics. Complicated politics do not justify a lawless free for all invasion.