One needs to differentiate. The eastern provinces are traditionally more close to Russia and thus did not recognize the new pro-Western and russophobe government after the Maidan putsch.
Hence they split and created those separatist provinces - Donbass, Donetzk and Lugansk.
There has been civil war since 2014 and Kiew has been shelling those provinces, in breach of Minsk, cutting them off funds, prohibiting the Russian language etc.
They are being fought by neo-nazi elements that are part of the new Kiew regime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion
None of this is mentioned in the Western media of course
I recommend this link:
https://libertarianinstitute.org/article...raine-war/
Here is more about the neo-nazi connection :
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/04/ho...neo-nazis/
Hence they split and created those separatist provinces - Donbass, Donetzk and Lugansk.
There has been civil war since 2014 and Kiew has been shelling those provinces, in breach of Minsk, cutting them off funds, prohibiting the Russian language etc.
They are being fought by neo-nazi elements that are part of the new Kiew regime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion
None of this is mentioned in the Western media of course
I recommend this link:
https://libertarianinstitute.org/article...raine-war/
Here is more about the neo-nazi connection :
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/04/ho...neo-nazis/