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The eastern part overwhelmingly voted for Yanukovych, they lost their actual democratic representation then Ukraine started banning their language in 2015. Of course they wanted to Secede. There are no movements or unrest in Crimea to rejoin Ukraine, because historically it was never part of Ukraine.

But the point is that the government of Ukraine deliberately did these things with the exact intent of provoking war with Russia. Why would you want to rule over a people you hate so much? This pattern of course continued.