The people in Donetsk identifying as Russian voted for an INDEPENDENT Ukraine. That was just manufactured propaganda to facilitate Putin’s pattern of “Transnistrian” policy controls ‘zones’ of frozen conflicts in Moldova (Transnistria region), Georgia (Abkhazia and South Ossetia), and in Ukraine annexed Crimean peninsula and the Donbas.
Russia uses this wider pattern of created separatist conflicts to create corruption and criminality as ‘Trojan horses’ to block progress in reform-minded periphery countries. This is the Russian tactics part of their geopolitical strategy creating conflict zones to prevent countries from entering NATO and integrating into the European Union.
CONFLICTS created by Russia is part of Russia imperialistic plan to regain strategic points of its LOST EMPIRE. Check out comment #78.
Also, Opposition to secession from Ukraine and annexation by Russia (the combined percentage for the people opting for the options of “Rather, no” and “Certainly, no found that, overall, 69% of southerners and 53% of easterners supported Ukraine remaining as a independent, unitary state; and only 2% of southerners and 4% of easterners supported separatism.
Where is your data from?
Secondly, the US ran an Color Revolution operation that removed a truly neutral President of Ukraine and replaced him with a WEF stooge, Zelensky. A neutral Ukraine died with the installation of a puppet.
Do you acknowledge this? ‘Independent’ Ukraine doesn’t exist.