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Originally Posted by nik-
To the first bold, so what? Seriously, what difference does that make to the fact that they're committing violence? Absolutely zero, so I'm not sure why you're pointing it out.
To the second, if they're fighting against the forces of the country they're in ... yes, yes they should be considered separatists. And yes I do think they should leave.
Just because you took the RT propaganda bait all the way to the gills, doesn't mean you're going to convince us to do it too.
If they don't want to be part of what the UKRAINE is doing, the country they live in, and they're of Russian decent, go back to the homeland. I know that's at odds with the first statement, but whatever, #### off back to Russia if you think it's so great.
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Our main misunderstanding comes because I believe this violence to be self defense against the Ukrainian army. The army didn't come there on a peace mission, it came to conquer and show its power. As for violence before hand, after the government fell, (violent) activists from Kiev were moving to enforce their ideas in those cities(Kharkiv, Donetsk, Luhansk). It started with people trying to protect statues as parts of their cities, and pretty fast slid into more and more violence from both sides!
The first barricades in the region were actually made to disallow traffic of activists from Kiev into those cities, but it seems like everything is forgotten now.