Westerners crowdfunding for the breakup of Ukraine

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Source: BBC

A number of Westerners are using crowdfunding websites to support pro-separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, but they've run into trouble with both the websites and the Ukrainian authorities.

Fighting continues in eastern Ukraine, as pro-Russian separatists battle Ukrainian government forces. Nearly 10,000 people have died since the conflict erupted in April 2014, and recently a rebel leader declared a state called "Malorossiya" (Little Russia) in Donetsk.

Among the separatists are a number of Westerners, drawn to the country by the conflict and financing their adventures using crowdfunding websites - sometimes in apparent violation of website rules and Ukrainian laws.

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1. They bought the spin.

Ukrainians are fascists, Russians are freedom fighters.

Meh.

[Xolodno]

2. And a lot more are going to die...

..over this tug of war.

Technically, the current borders of Ukraine are three countries. The east is Russian, the south belongs to the Tatars...but good luck on getting any European country recognizing an Islamic country on European soil...the west, is Ukraine. But it's not a viable nation without the east and south. When Russia conquered Ukraine, it was just a collection of non-affiliated farm villages that didn't even have a common currency. Unfortunately, it was wedged between Russia and Western/Central Europe.