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The whole Donbass region taken altogether would surely vote to stay with Ukraine. But the separatist regions (a considerably smaller area) were actively fighting to secede from Ukraine, so I'm pretty certain they'd never vote to stay with Ukraine.

The separatist regions in the Donbass and the Crimea were both pretty full of ethnic Russians, who enjoyed regional autonomy -- which was then ripped away after the Maidan coup (the constitution was unilaterally torn up by the new regime in Kiev). I strongly believe that this gave the regions in...