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Donbas was part of Ukraine for 25% of Ukraines history (92 years out of 367)
Almost a century and only now they are complaining about being "treated badly"?
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Some are married for decades at some stage a partner becomes increasingly abusive (in this case 16000 dead in 8 years), then it's time for a divorce. This "family" feud is no execption.
We will find out how many Countries Ukraine will be split, only 3 or 4, 5..... (West Ukraine, Ukraine, Donetsk, Luhansk People's Republic....)
Donetsk and Luhansk are gone. These regions would probably have voluntarily isolated if they were given the choice anyways. Ukraine will still be Ukraine, a single nation. Just carve out the exception for those two regions.
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Donetsk and Luhansk did have a referendum and 90% voted to be a indepented nations.
What the outcome of the negotiations will be we will find out.
Lviv Oblast more or less is the same size as Luhansk and bigger than Slovenia, Montenegro or 50 countries in the world, was once a independent state, Galicia-Volhynia, it was also part of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Austro-Hungarian Empire,
and the West Ukrainian People's Republic and Poland, when it was part of the Lwów Voivodeship of the Second Republic of Poland.
From November 1918 — June 1919 part of an independent West Ukrainian National Republic.
The region only became part of the Soviet Union under the terms of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in 1939.
You dare to predict what the outcome of a referendum would be in the oblast if the people given the choice to be indepented and if the behave, work hard to have the option to join Eu and Nato?