In short if this was about making the east and Crimea "independent" how it went about was not the way.
Again, it is failure of Ukranian government, they made the people in the South and East think as if they will never get a chance to do anything.
I keep saying, do you think the whole situation in Donbass would be happening if the government said, lets have a vote on federalisation let alone becoming independant?
Instead they laughed off the whole idea, do you expect people to have faith in such government for then on a later date to give them chance to decide whether they will join Russia or not.
As I shown in my previous posts, Ukranian government through its actions showed it has no respect for the Russian population of Ukraine constantly, did you expect the Russians in Ukraine to sit quietly and obide, and hope that sometime in the future, somehow, they will be given a chance to speak... While their schools/books/language being banned?
USA declared a war on England just cause of taxes, they didnt like that... In Ukraine peoples culture and way of life is at very risk from the government and you expect them to sit quietly and endure?
To Russians in Ukraine the pro-EU, Pro-Nazi history government policies is no different to how we`d feel if sharia law was imposed on us in UK. Would we just sit tight and hold on while the extremists would give us a right of voice and self-determination??
How would you feel if tomorrow, London was taken over by 3-4 million Islamists who overthrew Westminster and got into power and then started making and passing extremist laws? Then, when lets say Wales says they are not having none of that, we start calling them terrorists and bombing them.
Would you sit quietly and wait for a peaceful referendum which would allow me to keep my values? Or call up USA and beg for them to annex you?
I am sure that al-queeda and boko haram would make speeches and support the new pro-islamist UK... Just as whole western world does for Ukraine...
This sounds totally absurd but this is about how your average Russian-Ukranian views the whole situation.