Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "Ukraine frontline fighting: Russian forces attack Vuhledar - BBC News" video.
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What seems consistently overlooked in all this, is that this current nonsense since February 2022 can really be dated to 2013, when pro-Russian President Yanukovych rejected a deal for greater European integration. Protests ensued. Yanukovych tried to quell these violently, and was removed in what was essentially a coup (no doubt a Western-backed coup). Since 2014, a pro-Western regime has reigned in Ukraine. Ukraine is almost 50/50 split down the middle between those who look East and those who look West. The 2010 election results demonstrated this, where Yanukovych received 49% of the vote, with the great majority of his supporters living East of the Dnieper, while his pro-Western rival, Tymoshenko, received 46% of the vote, with the vast majority of of her supporters living West of the Dnieper. (The colour-code map on Wikipedia starkly shows this East/West split.) In other words, this is complicated. Those of us with no skin in the game can clearly see Russia’s illegal invasion is wrong. But we can also see that the behaviour of the pro-Western Ukrainian government towards ethnic Russian Ukrainians in the East of the country is equally wrong. The only way out of this mess, given the demographics and the voting patterns outlined, may be to create an East Ukraine and a West Ukraine.
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