As TW has described it, those areas had developed, especially since 2014, into urban Russian, rural Ukrainian. As he's also said, it's almost certain that all Ukrainian sympathizers who could have fled...
It is difficult to imagine a President of the United States being so co opted by Russian land deals. Intelligent and knowledgeable people comment that Putin can offer business opportunities including the lure of a Trump Tower Moscow in order to bend Trump to his will.
🤷â€Â♂︠Records exist and previous residents could be voting and obviously no one who recently moved in but this wasn't necessarily relating to a current plebiscite, just a general question.. Most people, me included have no idea of the political make up of Eastern Ukraine prior to this war but Putin claimes its "Russian".
It was largely Russian speaking and I'm sure there were many Russian sympathizers, particularly as I said, among post 2014 immigrants. Zelensky himself was a native Russian speaker...
We probably the voting records for Donetsk and Lugansk from 2010 (the last pre-2014 election).
Yep. That's one of the problems in the entire big picture. That also was before the influx of Russians following the latest invasion...
I wasn't aware of that. So you're saying that many civilians came in from Russia behind the Russian army into a war zone?
