The only ethnic Russian province in Ukraine is Crimea. All of the rest, including Luhansk and Donetsk, have ethnic Ukrainian majorities.
All of the rest, including Luhansk and Donetsk, have ethnic Ukrainian majorities.
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So then, by your “ reasoning”, the Ukies began shelling ethnic Ukies instead of ethnic Russians in 2014?
This war started in 2014 when the Azov Neo Nazis Ukies began attacking the ethnic Russians, can’t change history.