Then maybe you should go bone up on what has happened in the last week or so before commenting? Things have moved quite a bit compared to the state that you describe, to put it very mildly.

No I know enough to know about the separatist regions, if not by propaganda then by actual action because western governments have begun to scrutinize business dealings with entities in those separatist regions, not just Russia. If everybody had to be actual experts in something before commenting on it here, there would be zero comments about any Russia/Ukraine story.

Aside from that It's extremely difficult to get reliable information from any source I have found about the details of the situation. I've not seen anything that is contrary to what I said though. Maybe you can enlighten me.

Too much to summarize but you can start here:

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent

they're pretty good and if they make mistakes they admit them and correct.

So you're unable to even point out what part of my comment was not correct or outdated. Doesn't sound like you actually even know. Maybe you should take your own advice with respect to commenting then.

It reads as though you completely missed the fact that Russia has invaded Ukraine and that therefore the situation you describe is technically correct but taken as a fragment of the whole currently utterly irrelevant.

I can't help that you "read" something I did not write, and can not follow the context of the discussion.

In context it's clear I was talking about this situation of the separatist regions contrasting with the situation of Russia occupying Ukraine. So you're totally out to lunch if you think I completely missed that.

Ok. I found it hard to imagine, but I know one other person that was quite literally so out of touch that he had missed the last week so it was for me at least plausible.

You may find a mirror to be helpful.

Twitter is never a reliable source for anything. Not only because sane people cannot read most tweets because Twitter now asks you to log in.

Kyivindependent is a news agency hosted in Kyiv, they are obviously pro Ukraine, at the same time I've been reading their stuff for the last couple of days and if the news is bad for their side they report it straight. I'd give them a chance.

All the Russian speaking Ukrainians are pro Ukraine and want the Russians out. So how likely do you think it is that those regions are really separatist?

Russia claims that the Russians that are fighting there are "volunteers". So basically everybody in that region knows very well who they are really fighting. Not Ukrainians but Russian "volunteers".

Ukrainians have both the time (they tasted western freedom and don't want to go back, russian troops need to be paid by the day) and the watches (javlins, stingers, US intelligence and now extra jet fighters)

> All the Russian speaking Ukrainians are pro Ukraine and want the Russians out.

How do you know this to be the case?

Charkov is mainly Russian speaking. Show me the media where they are welcoming their invaders.

Here is the media of the current situation. Doesn't seem very welcoming does it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev0x9pqYqvs

https://youtu.be/XnTGHUCN7SQ?t=75

The bravery on display makes me choke up.

People seem to make the mistake to think that the citizens that speak Russian are automatically pro Russian. But that isn't the case, they are Lithuanians first for the most part.

Good luck finding video on YouTube favorable to any Russian viewpoints. “The media” is cultivated to display or at least promote the main narrative of the US policymakers.

> All the Russian speaking Ukrainians are pro Ukraine and want the Russians out.

I didn't say they wanted Russian occupation necessarily, just that they were separatist from Ukraine. They were all significantly in favor of Ukrainian independence from USSR of course.

> So how likely do you think it is that those regions are really separatist?

Are you in denial of the existence of Ukrainian separatist regions and the Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic?

The people there don't want to separate from Ukraine. They identify as Ukrainian.

All the people do not support the DPR and LPR or separation from Ukraine certainly don't want to separate from Ukraine, I'll give you that much.

> All the Russian speaking Ukrainians are pro Ukraine and want the Russians out

The ethnic lines between Government/Separatists aren't that clear and if that were the case, then Putin would be correct in criticising discrimination too.