I always love when Westerners tell me, a Ukrainian-born and bred, about my country.

you are not qualified to assess my level of historical knowledge, especially when it concerns my home country and my personal experience of the said history.

it's just you make spelling mistakes usual for speakers of Russian — and you repeat their lies about the East, so there.

are you Russian or what?

I live here. I have lived through both revolutions, my husband was wounded last winter by the police' grenade. my best friend went missing in the first month of Russia's invasion, so no, I have no interest whatsoever in opinions of those who believe my country is a failed state.

if you look at the pending comments you will see a whole bunch of those paid trolls I wrote about.

this is not a civil war.

this is amazing how gullible Westerners can be to the Russian lies.

it is. these signs can be found at entrances to industrial sites.

why, then did the American Ambassador insist that all protesters went home and leave things be?

no, it didn't. unrest in Ukraine was created by the ungodly greed of its rulers. and Yanukovych was pro-EU. this was what got him elected — along with the hold of all local authorities and copies of stamps of every single electoral committee in the country.

I suppose you, too, should go and read a dictionary — say, to learn what the word 'coup' means.

thank you.

The Czech Republic sold American weapons to Russia. so there.

why don't you go and read a dictionary? for starters, learn what the word 'junta' means.

one more thing.

it did the same trick in the beginning of WW2 — by taking over Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Western Belarus and Western Ukraine — which were at the time under Polish rule.

if Ukraine were so easily toppled — why, then, hasn't it been already?

no, Ukraine is the new / old Ukraine. Russia has been invading my country several times in the previous century, and the current war is just another attempt to bring it back to the heel.

I would say that Russia (in the form of the Soviet Union) used the same very technique before the WW2 on Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland (thus obtaining Western Belarus and Western Ukraine).