Of course you're not going to answer my question. Before the war the Russian ethnic populations in the two original occupied eastern Ukrainian regions were 38.6 % and 36 %.. During The invasion a quarter of the Ukrainian population fled the regions. Even with that, there's no way they could get the results they claim to get unless they lied. Also the referendum was not monitored by any outside groups to confirm its legitimacy. It was done by the Russians and their puppet governments that they established in the regions. They sent armed guards with the referendum gatherers. My big question is how many of the Russian soldiers voted in that referendum. Again, to increase the votes to anywhere near what they said they got, it had to be all of them. That is how big the Russian government is. Only the purposely blind cannot see this.If you’re just going to spout establishment talking points, just go do it somewhere else. This board is for intelligent thinking individuals.