The Civil War and the Russian Military Interventions in Donbas
Journal: Rethinking political violence
Year: 2025

Abstract This chapter examines the role of separatists, the Yanukovych government, the Maidan opposition, and the Maidan government, far-right organizations, Russia, the United States, and the EU in the conflict in Donbas. It uses a specially commissioned survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) in 2014 to analyze public support for separatism in Donbas, compared to other regions of Ukraine, and the major factors which affect such support. It concludes that all these actors