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ho dares disagree. Their demands range from a referendum on the independent status for the region to an outright annexation by Russia, based on the Crimea model. The rabble-rousers' identities are apparently mixed - for example, many of them are local veteransof the Soviet war in Afghanistan while oth
king areas. If the government is able to prevent a major conflagration and if in the days that follow Kremlin henchmen and sympathisers in Donetsk, Luhansk or Odessa are contained as a result of Kiev's stepped-up anti-terrorist action, Putin may feel it a matter of his own survival to intervene. For th
r= 2014. That sparked a spiraling crisis: a fledgling interim government in Kiev looked on as Russia first seized and t=en annexed the territory of Crimea, a strategic Black Sea peninsula. A pro-Rus=ian separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine, believed to have direct backing f=om Moscow, has led to th
nsula last March to aid what was ultimately Russia's annexation of =he territory. A pro-Russian insurgency in the east by the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk, Ukraine's industrial hea=tland, is ongoing, despite numerous attempts at ceasefires. K=ev is seeking greater Western military assistance in what ma
ry 2014. That sparked a spiraling crisis: a fledgling interim government in Kiev looked on as Russia first seized and then annexed the territory of Crimea, a strategic Black Sea peninsula. A pro- Russian separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine, believed to have direct backing from Moscow, has led to t
insula last March to aid what was ultimately Russia's annexation of the territory. A pro-Russian insurgency in the east by the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk, Ukraine's industrial heartland, is ongoing, despite numerous attempts at ceasefires. Kiev is seeking greater Western military assistance in what m
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