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?
In Zakarpattia Oblast seven villages the Mukachivskyi Raion (couple of thousand people) are of Hungarian decent ask them if the want to be part of Hungary and instantly become EU citizen or stay a minority in the proven abusive Ukraine. It isn't only Donetsk and Luhansk people who suffer in Ukraine.
Well those referendums were not "legitimate." (Seems we recognize legitimacy to be Western acceptance, though that shouldn't necessarily be the standard). My point is, under any normal circumstances a democratic election would just result in an independent nation for these regions. Zelenskky seems unwilling to accept the truth that some territories are gone, but he's a politician and that is their normal standard (I haven't kept updated on the negotiation talks, so it may be that Zelenskky has already conceded those regions, I don't know).
I wish I had not watched that. You should put a warning on that video.