[Right_Wing_Madman]

The word that you are looking for is “conquered,” not “liberated.”

Then why are the Donetsk and Luhansk militias fighting on the wrong side? Shouldn't they be allied with the Ukrainians?

[Petrosius]

Then why are the Donetsk and Luhansk militias fighting on the wrong side? Shouldn't they be allied with the Ukrainians?

You mean the militias that Russia has raised from the ethnic Russian minority to force their will upon the Ukrainian majority in Donetsk and Luhansk?