Comments by "Black Cat Dungeon Master\x27s Familiar" (@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311) on "Lord Dannatt: Donbas and Luhansk control is 'within Russian reach'" video.

Russia holding on to the Donbas is more like the Afghanis holding on to Afghanistan. The people who live in Donbas are mainly ethnically Russian.
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@heycidskyja4668 Except for the people who actually live in Donbas - and who went to war with Ukraine for their independence. And the people who live in Crimea and now overwhelmingly support the annexation by Russia. Even a majority of the ethnic Ukrainian minority in Crimea were brought around to the annexation according to Western opinion polls.
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@VioIetShift That's true but in the case of Crimea, even though Russia obviously rigged the referendum, Western polls still showed an overwhelming majority of people voted in favour. And in the years since, the popularity of Russian rule has increased. As for Donbas, most people were happy until the Maidan coup, after the Ukrainian nationalists took control and started doing stuff like suppressing the Russian language then enough people wanted to leave Ukraine strongly enough that they were able to fight off the Ukrainian army for months before Russia started to get involved. In Odessa, dozens of pro-Russians were murdered. The picture we have in the Western media is very one sided. Read Ukraine in the Crossfire by a Dutch journalists for some solid references.
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