A year ago, the people of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine voted on independence. Today, approval of the pro-Russian separatists seems to be even greater than before.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Deutsche Welle: Donetsk, Luhansk – the ‘people’s republics’ one year on
Several hundreds of people, supporters of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, attend a rally in Donetsk on May 11, 2015 to mark the first anniversary of referendums called by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine to split from the rest of the ex-Soviet republic, polls that have been slammed as \"illegal\" by Kyiv and the West.
