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2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
Part of the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution
Comparison of pro-Russia vs. Ukraine protests
Date	23 February 2014–present (10 years, 10 months and 3 days)
Location	Eastern Ukraine Southern Ukraine Crimea
Caused by	Opposition to the Euromaidan movement Opposition to the Yatsenyuk Government Opposition to inclusion of Svoboda and Right Sector in the government of Ukraine The Verkhovna Rada's vote on 23 February to repeal language law aimed at giving Russian and other minority languages (if in a region the percentage of a national minority exceeded 10%) the status of regional language Banning of the Party of the Regions and the Communist Party of Ukraine in Western Ukraine oblasts by regional and local communities.
Goals	Transforming Ukraine into a federal state Referendums on status for Eastern Ukraine and Southern Ukraine Decriminalization for previous (Yanukovych) official in government of Ukraine Making Russian an official language in Ukraine
Methods	Occupation of administrative buildings Hoisting of the Russian flag over governmental buildings Demonstrations Riots
Parties
File:Coat of arms of Donetskaya Narodnaya Republic.png Donetsk Republic Pro-Russian demonstrators Previous government of Ukraine Yanukovych presidency in-exile Russia Russian activists and radicals GRU Don Cossacks Acting government of Ukraine Turchynov acting-presidency Yatsenyuk Government Security Service of Ukraine National Guard of Ukraine Political parties Batkivshchyna Svoboda UDAR Radical Party Right Sector militants Patriots of Ukraine
Casualties and losses
Died: 2 Arrested: At least 70 Died: 2 Hospitalized: 10 Arrested: 30

Since the end of February 2014, demonstrations by pro-Russian and anti-government groups have taken place in major cities across the south-eastern regions of Ukraine, in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and the Euromaidan movement. Various Russian news media outlets have used the term Russian Spring (Template:Lang-ru) to describe the protests.

Background

Ukraine has been gripped by unrest since President Viktor Yanukovych refused to sign an association agreement with the European Union on 21 November 2013. A widespread movement known as 'Euromaidan' demanded closer ties with the European Union, and the ouster of President Yanukovych. This movement was ultimately successful, culminating in the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, which removed Yanukovych and his government. However, some people in largely Russophone Eastern and Southern Ukraine, the traditional bases of support for Yanukovych and his Party of the Regions, did not approve of the ouster, and began to protest in favour of closer ties with Russia.

Starting on 23 February 2014, various demonstrations were held in Crimea in favour of leaving Ukraine and accession to the Russian Federation, leading to the 2014 Crimean crisis.

On 1 March, regional state administration buildings (RSAs) in various eastern Ukrainian oblasts were briefly occupied by pro-Russian activists. By 11 March, all occupations had ended, after units of the local police and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) re-took the buildings. In Donetsk, protests have descended into violence on multiple occasions, including on 13 March where one pro-Kiev protester was stabbed to death. In Kharkiv, Patriots of Ukraine members shot dead a pro-Russian 'Oplot' gang member and a passerby on the night of 15 March when pro-Russian protesters attacked the Right Sector headquarters.

According to officials and pro-government eyewitness accounts not all attendees of the protests are Ukrainian nationals; but a significant number of them are Russian citizens. Pro-Russian activists, meanwhile, say that pro-Ukrainian counter-protesters consist of paid attendees and students who are under threat of expulsion from their universities (if they fail to attend the pro-Ukrainian rallies). Donetsk oblast governor Serhiy Taruta alleges that rallies in Donetsk contain ex-convicts and others who traveled from Crimea. Ukraine's security forces and border guards since 4 March have denied more than 8,200 Russians into the country as of 25 March. On 27 March, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Andriy Parubiy said that between 500 and 700 Russians were being denied entry daily.

Public opinion

A poll conducted by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology in the fist half of February 2014 assessed support for union with Russia throughout Ukraine. It found that, overall, 12% of those polled favoured union with Russia. However, support for such a union was found to be much higher in certain areas:

• 41.0% Crimea
• 33.2% Donetsk Oblast
• 24.1% Luhansk Oblast
• 24.0% Odessa Oblast
• 16.7% Zaporizhia Oblast
• 15.1% Kharkiv Oblast
• 13.8% Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

In another opinion poll conducted from 14–26 March by the International Republican Institute, 26-27% of the polled Southern and Eastern Ukrainians viewed the Euromaidan protests as a coup d'etat. Only 5% of respondents in Eastern Ukraine felt that Russian-speakers were 'definitely' under pressure or threat. 43% of ethnic Russians ('definitely' or 'rather') supported the decision of the Russian Federation to send its military to protect Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine. In the poll, 22% of Southern Ukraine, and 26% of Eastern Ukraine supported the idea of federalization of the country; 69% of Southern and 53% of Eastern supported Ukraine remaining as a unitary state; 2% of Southern and 4% of Eastern supported separatism ("divide into several countries").

Timeline

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Unrest by region

Crimea

Beginning on February 26, pro-Russian forces, many of which were widely believed to be Russian military without insignias, began to gradually take control of the Crimean peninsula. During this time, the question of joining the Russian Federation was put to a referendum, which had a official turnout of 83 per cent and resulted in a 96% affirmative vote but has been condemned by the EU, the USA, Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar officials as contrary to Ukraine's constitution and to international law. On March 17, the Crimean Parliament declared independence from Ukraine and asked to join the Russian Federation. On March 18 Russia and Crimea signed a treaty of accession of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol into the Russian Federation. The U.N. General Assembly passed a non-binding resolution that declared that the referendum was invalid, and the incorporation of Crimea into Russia as illegal.

Donetsk

Pro-Russian protesters occupied the Donetsk regional state administration (RSA) building from 1 March to 6 March, before being removed by the Security Service of Ukraine.

According to Ukrainian authorities the seizure of RSA's are part of "a script which has been written in the Russian Federation" to destabilize Ukraine and bring in Russian troops executed by "about 1,500 radicals in each region who spoke with clear Russian accents".

On Sunday, 6 April 2014, 1,000-2,000 pro-Russia protesters attended a rally in Donetsk pushing for a Crimea-style referendum on independence from Ukraine. After which, 200 separatists (according to Igor Dyomin, a spokesman for Donetsk local police, about 1,000) pro-Russian protesters stormed and took control of the first two floors of the building, breaking down doors and smashing windows. The administration headquarters were empty, with only guards inside, as government officials would not work there on Sundays. The separatists demanded that if an extraordinary session was not held by officials, announcing a referendum to join Russia, they would declare unilateral control by forming a "People's Mandate" at noon on 7 April, and dismiss all elected council members and MPs. The people who voted within the RSA were not elected to the positions they assumed. According to the Russian ITAR-TASS the declaration was voted by some regional legislators, however there are claims that neither the Donetsk city council nor district councils of the city delegated any representatives to the session.

People's Republic of Donetsk

On 6 April, the leaders of the separatist group Donetsk Republic announced that a referendum, on whether Donetsk Oblast should "join the Russian Federation", would take place "no later than 11 May 2014." Additionally, the group's leaders have appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to send Russian peacekeeping forces to the region.

In response to the actions, acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov vowed to launch a major counter-terrorism operation against separatist movements in the country’s eastern regions. Later that day, the SBU office in Donetsk was retaken by SBU Alpha Group.

On the morning of 8 April, the 'Patriotic Forces of Donbass', a pro-Kyiv group unrelated to Donetsk Republic organization who proclaimed independence and seized the council, issued a statement on its Facebook page against the other group's declaration of independence, citing complaints from locals. Their announcement stated that they would quash the potential state's establishment, cancel the referendum, and, on their part, stated that the declaration is illegal. Protesters reportedly gave up some weapons too. Despite this, the Donetsk Republic organization continued to occupy the RSA and declared themselves the legitimate authority, and upheld all previous calls for a referendum and the release of their leader Pavel Gubarev. In the afternoon of 8 April, about a thousand people rallied in front of the RSA listening to speeches about the Donetsk People's Republic and to Soviet and Russian music.

Luhansk

As a protest against cancelling the Legislation on languages in Ukraine, the Oblast council of Luhansk Oblast voted to demand giving Russian language the status of second official language, stopping persecution of Berkut fighters, disarming Maidan self-defense units and banning a number of far-right political organizations like Svoboda and UNA-UNSO. In the event that the authorities failed to comply with the demands, the Oblast council reserved itself the "right to ask for help from the brotherly people of the Russian Federation".

The regional state administration building of Luhansk has been occupied multiple times. It was reoccupied on 6 April, along with the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) local headquarters, including the SBU’s armoury of over 300 machine guns. Pro-Russian activists declared that they would found a 'Lugansk Parliamentary Republic' on April 8th, 2014.

Kharkiv

Protests have been ongoing in Kharkiv, and the regional state administration building there has been occupied multiple times.

Pro-Russian protesters occupying the Kharkiv regional state administration building unilaterally declared independence from Ukraine as the 'Kharkov People's Republic' on 7 April 2014. By the next day, seventy protesters were arrested and the RSA building was retaken by Ukrainian special forces..

Odessa

Beginning on 1 March, demonstrations have been ongoing in Odessa Oblast. Interfax reported that between 5,000 to 20,000 participated in a pro-Russian demonstration in the city of Odessa on that day.

Rolling demonstrations continued, and on 3 March 2014, 200–500 demonstrators with Russian flags attempted to seize the Odessa Regional State Administration building. They demanded that a referendum on the establishment of an "Odessa Autonomous Republic" be held.

Protests by date and attendance

Pro-Russian protests

Pro-Ukraine counter protests

International reaction

Crimea

For international reactions to the Crimean crisis, see International reactions to the 2014 Crimean crisis.

Eastern and Southern Ukraine

Various international entities have warned all sides to reduce tensions in Eastern and Southern Ukraine.

Supranational organisations

•  UN – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned the violence that occurred in Eastern Ukraine over the weekend of 14–16 March and urged all parties "to refrain from violence and to commit themselves to de-escalation and inclusive national dialogue in the pursuit of a political and diplomatic solution." Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said that the United States has no doubt that Russians were behind the takeovers of government buildings in eastern Ukraine.

States

•  Russia – Russia's Foreign Ministry stated in a 8 April 2014 statement on its official website ""We are calling for the immediate cessation of any military preparations, which could lead to civil war". The ministry alleged that what it called "American experts from the private military organization Greystone" disguised as soldiers, as well as militants from the Ukrainian far-right group Right Sector, had joined Ukrainian forces preparing for the crackdown in eastern Ukraine. In an 7 April opinion piece in The Guardian Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov wrote it was the EU and US, and not Russia, that was guilty of destabilising Ukraine ("the EU and US have been trying to compel Ukraine to make a painful choice between east and west, further aggravating internal differences") and that "Russia is doing all it can to promote early stabilisation in Ukraine".
•  USA – US Secretary of State John Kerry defined (on 7 April 2014) the conflict in in Kharkiv, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Mariupol a carefully orchestrated campaign with Russian support.

Notable protesters

Pro-Russian activists arrested

• Pavel Gubarev (self-proclaimed 'People's Governor' of Donetsk)
• Robert Donya (self-proclaimed deputy 'People's Governor' of Donesk)
• Mikhail Chumachenko (leader of the self-styled 'Donbass People's Militia')
• Dmitry Kuzmenko (self-proclaimed 'People's Mayor' of Mariupol)
• Anton Davidchenko (leader of 'Borotba' Marxist-Leninist communist group in Odessa)
• Aleksandr Kharitonov (leader of 'Luhansk Guard' organization)
• Arsen Klinchaev

On 3 April, one man was arrested and eight more were put under house arrest on suspicion of involvement in the riots in Donetsk on 13 March, which led to the murder of Dmitry Cherniavsky.

On April 5, the SBU arrested a group of 15 people in Luhansk, along with 300 machine guns, one anti-tank grenade launcher, five pistols, Molotov cocktails and a large amount of smooth-bore guns and cold steel weapons. "The group planned to carry out an armed seizure of power in Luhansk region on April 10 through intimidation of civilians using weapons and explosives," the SBU press center told Interfax-Ukraine.

In Kharkiv Antimaidan activist Igor Kromskoho (nicknamed "Topaz") was placed under house arrest on March 29 for his alleged involvement in the 1 March raid on the Kharkiv Regional State Administration building. On April 7, Topaz fled house arrest, cutting off his monitoring bracelet.

Russian citizens arrested

• V. Makarov, an alleged spy from GRU was arrested in Chernihiv on March 20, 2014
• Anton Rayevsky, a Russian neo-Nazi, was arrested in Odessa and then deported for inciting ethnic hatred and violence
• Roman Bannykh, a military intelligence agent of the Russian GRU, was detained on April 5, 2014
• Negrienko was arrested earlier in March 2014 for attempting to recruit Ukrainian police officers.
• Oleg Bakhtiyarov, a psychologist and a leader of the extremist Eurasian Youth Union, for allegedly planning to storm the Ukraine's parliament and Cabinet of Ministers buildings in Kiev by force. Bakhtiyarov, working under the guise of a civil society activist in Kiev, had recruited some 200 people for payment of $500 each to assist in storming the buildings and had stockpiled Molotov cocktails and various tools to carry out the provocation. The mastermind also arranged, with some Russian TV channels, to film the incident, which would then be blamed on Ukrainian radicals. Russian writer and the founder of the banned National Bolshevik Party, Eduard Limonov described Bakhtiyarov as “a good guy, a psychiatrist, a commando, a vet of the War of Transnistria and a participant of in the city hall seizure.”
• Dmitry Kolesnikov, a member of The Other Russia was arrested.
• Two Russian citizens (born in 1986 and 1987) were arrested in Lviv oblast on April 2, 2014, suspected of plotting to take several Ukrainians hostage, including a presidential candidate. In one of the suspect's cars was found a 200-gram TNT block, detonator, and 16 9×18mm Makarov rounds. Also found was a notebook with details of cars used by the presidential candidate and a timetable of his movements, a tablet with images of the targeted politician, as well as members of Lviv Regional Council, one former MP, photos of houses belonging to them, and plans for gaining access to them.
• Mariya Koleda, born 1991, arrested on April 9, 2014. Koleda is a Russian citizen who performed intelligence agencies’ tasks to destabilize the situation in the southern regions of Ukraine. On April 7, she took part in fights at the Mykolaiv Oblast Regional State Administration building using a firearm. She claims that she wounded three people. “She also reported on the preparation of two subversive groups (7 persons from Kherson and 6 people from Nova Kakhovka) to participate in riots in Donetsk,” reports the SSU. Koleda is an active member of the pro-Putin “Russia molodaya” (aka “Rosmol”).

Latvian citizen arrested

• A UK-based Latvian citizen Beness Aijo, an activist of Russia's National Bolshevik Party and The Other Russia, was arrested in Donetsk on April 1, 2014 for "preparation of an armed coup to overthrow the government and to undermine the territorial integrity of Ukraine" Previously Aijo had stated he came to Ukraine to "protect Russians from Bandera."

Alexander Dugin

On 29 March, Russian political scientist Aleksandr Dugin, one of the founders of the National Bolshevik Party and known for his ties to Vladimir Putin, appeared in a leaked Skype video conference with Kateryna Gubareva, the wife of Donetsk-based separatist Pavel Gubarev. In the call, he reassured her of Moscow's support and further actions that should be taken by the movement. He also stated all presidential nominees should be considered 'traitors' with only Yanukovych considered legitimate. He also said that separatists should “act in a radical way" and Moscow will later support civil war in Ukraine, saying “The Kremlin is determined to fight for the independence of South-east Ukraine.” Following the video's release, a member of Dugin's Eurasian Youth Union (Oleg Bakhtiyarov) was arrested on March 31 for planning terrorist acts in Ukraine.

Gallery

• Pro-Russian demonstration in Donetsk, 1 March 2014.
• Protesters in Donetsk, 1 March 2014.
• Protesters in Donetsk, 1 March 2014.
• Protesters in Luhansk, 1 March 2014.
• Protesters burn literature from far right groups in Kharkiv, 1 March 2014.

See also

• Russians in Ukraine
• 1954 transfer of Crimea
• Soviet annexation of ethnic Ukrainian territories (1939)

Notes

1. The group stated they:
   1) do not recognize the Ukrainian authorities;
   2) consider themselves the legitimate authority;
   3) "sent into retirement" of all law enforcement officials appointed by the central government and Governor Serhiy Taruta;
   4) "prescribed" in the May 11 referendum on self-determination Donetsk;
   5) require the issuance of its leader Pavel Gubarev and others are detained separatists;
   6) require Ukraine to withdrawal its troops and paramilitary forces;
   7) start the process of finding mechanisms of cooperation with the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia and other separatist groups (in Kharkiv and Luhansk).

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101. На улице в Сумах протестовать против России вышли 10 тысяч людей | УКРИНФОРМ
102. ^ В Кривом Роге, Сумах и Полтаве также проходят многотысячные митинги против российской агрессии - Новости / ФРАЗА
103. У Криму вимагають розпуску парламенту автономії і знесення пам’ятника Леніну
104. Template:Ru icon In Odessa, on the pro-Russian rally girl asks to marry "Muscovite" (photo), Segodnya (30 March 2014)
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110. Митинги в Краматорске: "унитарии" создали живой коридор, а "федералисты" сожгли флаг Евросоюза (фото, видео) | Восточный проект - новости Краматорска
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120. СБУ задержала заместителя донецкого сепаратиста Губарева : Новости УНИАН
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136. СБУ затримала російську шпигунку, яка організовувала диверсантів | Українська правда
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v t e Euromaidan and the Revolution of Dignity
21 November 2013 – 23 February 2014
Main topics	Timeline of the Euromaidan Domestic responses to the Euromaidan International reactions to the Euromaidan Casualties Heavenly Hundred Order of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes Damaged communist monuments
Main events	1 December 2013 riots Fall of the monument to Lenin in Kyiv 11 December 2013 assault Ukrainian–Russian action plan Anti-Maidan Vasylkiv terrorists case Anti-protest laws in Ukraine 2014 Odesa clashes 2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots 2014 RSA occupations Agreement on settlement of political crisis in Ukraine Revolution of Dignity
Aftermath	2014 pro-Russian unrest Timeline Russian military intervention 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia Timeline War in Donbas timeline First Yatsenyuk government Lustration in Ukraine Decommunization in Ukraine
Elections	2014 Ukrainian presidential election 2014 Ukrainian local elections 2014 Kyiv local election 2014 Crimean status referendum 2014 Donbas status referendums 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Main places	Maidan Nezalezhnosti Mezhyhirya Khreshchatyk Lypky Bankova Street European Square Hrushevskoho Street Dynamo Stadium Kyiv City Council Trade Unions Building Ukrainian House Mariinskyi Park October Palace Kyiv Conservatory
European integration	Ukraine–European Union relations Eastern Partnership European Union Association Agreement European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement Constitution of Ukraine
Protest figures	Organizations Maidan People's Union Euromaidan Press Parliamentary opposition parties Batkivshchyna Svoboda UDAR Other parties Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists Democratic Alliance UNA–UNSO United Left and Peasants Civic organizations Automaidan Road Control Vidsich Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Militant groups Right Sector Spilna Sprava Lead figures Vitali Klitschko Arseniy Yatsenyuk Oleh Tyahnybok Petro Poroshenko Yuriy Lutsenko Oleksandr Turchynov Yulia Tymoshenko Andriy Parubiy Andriy Sadovyi Arsen Avakov Ruslana Tetiana Chornovol Dmytro Bulatov Dmytro Yarosh Refat Chubarov
Anti-protest figures	Organizations Second Azarov government Ministry of Internal Affairs Internal Troops of Ukraine Security Service of Ukraine Berkut Militsiya (Ukraine) Party of Regions Titushky Night Wolves Don Cossacks Antimaidan Lead figures Viktor Yanukovych Mykola Azarov Serhiy Arbuzov Vitaliy Zakharchenko Oleksandr Yefremov Andriy Klyuyev Hennadiy Kernes Mykhailo Dobkin Viktor Pshonka Olena Lukash Yuriy Boyko Leonid Kozhara Dmytro Tabachnyk Oleksandr Klymenko

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