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Crimea, Kharkov and Donetsk are ethnically. Crimea, was attached to Ukraine in the 1950's or 1960's. Ukraine should have given then independence or autonomy since instability has ruined the nation and now lead to it's collapse. Viktor Yanukovych, Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko just did not get this point and screwed up big time!

From 1998 to 2000, Leonid Kuchma's bodyguard Mykola Mel'nychenko was allegedly eavesdropping Kuchma's office, later publishing the recordings. The release of the tapes – dubbed "Kuchmagate" by the Ukrainian press – supposedly revealed Kuchma's numerous crimes. In particular, his approving the sale of radar systems to Saddam Hussein (among other illegal arms sales) and ordering the Ukraine's police minister to "take care" of the journalist Georgiy Gongadze.

Leonid Kravchuk and Petro Poroshenko are the only ones who appeared in any way able to run the divided nation.