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In reply to the discussion: Just propaganda, or evidence of massive Ukrainian losses in Donbas fighting? [View all]JonLP24
(29,913 posts)I suggest you inform yourself on the divide where even the official languages are a controversial issue.
The first is to forge a pluricultural Ukraine in which minority communities are given equal rights within the framework of Ukrainian political identity. This is actually Russias and the Russophone communitys preferred solution.
The second is to forge a culturally homogeneous Ukraine in which minorities are assigned a subordinate status and are politically powerless to change it.
The pluricultural option has been rejected by president Poroshenko and by the majority of the newly elected Ukrainian parliament. But, due to the events of this year, the monocultural option has gained a new lease on life.
The reasons are obvious. There are now six million fewer Russophone Ukrainians under Ukrainian government control. This is a 28 percent reduction of the Russophone population of Ukraine (not counting refugees).
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-real-war-ukraine-the-battle-over-ukrainian-identity-11782?page=2
So if you believe the people treated like second hand citizens and a lot of other politicized issues that existed long before RT are just Russian Army then you bought into propaganda from somewhere a long time ago.