Bro this ain't a small collection of villages we're talking about, the maps can distort the reality, Donbass is a massive heavily populated region, millions of people and a multitude of large cities, there's no other way to slice it, it would've been a self-inflicted ethnic cleansing lmao

And should they have done the same for Crimea? There is no escaping the confrontation, it was set the minute the fascists pulled the coup