Correction - in a paragraph towards the end of my post I wrote "rest" where I should have written "east". Makes a difference.

So the paragraph should have read:

So when the Russians move troops into the Crimea, that isn't seen by the people there as an invasion, but a liberating force, in support of the legitimate government of Ukraine agains a coup which has overthrown it. And they appear to hope to be able to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Russia. And that is probably more or less what the people in
the east of Ukraine think as well.
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