Jaytreeman ,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donetsk_People's_Republic

There's a luhansk one as well.
Russia backed those separatists. Russia escalated it, but there was a sizable portion of the population that wanted out of Ukraine. I have zero idea how they feel about the 2022 annexation.

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