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I think this article shows a partisan view. I read reliable data on the OSCE mission website.

It states: ""Daily and spot reports from The Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (OSCE)"". "OSCE". 2017-01-29. Retrieved 2017-02-02. There were ceasefire violations inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area on 27 and 28 January. In violation of withdrawal lines the Mission observed tanks and howitzers near Avdiivka and a surface-to-air missile system near Hannivka.

If I'm not wrong this means that the Ukrainian are in violation of the Minsk agreements, not the DPR.

Secondly, I referred to the source of the "ethnicity data". For as far as I know, they speak about nationalities, not ethnicity. Ukrainians are as far as I know ethnic Russians... But this is controversial I know. Nevertheless, the source doesn't use the wording, so it is inappropriate to use it and then use an external source where the word "ethnic" appears only once in a preamble.

Please define what ancestor contribution make you an ethnic Ukrainian and what combination make you Russian (remember that the eastern Ukraine was added as a counterbalance for the western Ukraine in soviet time and was therefore 100% ethnic Russian just one generation ago)?

Let us instead speak about nationality please, an obvious concept. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.225.80.69 (talk) 11:42, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The above IP remarks are Russian nationalism and POV-pushing trolling. But for the average Wikipedia reader: Eastern Ukraine was never 100% ethnic Russian. According to the Russian Imperial Census of 1897, ethnic Ukrainians comprised 52.4% of the population of the Donbass region, whilst ethnic Russians comprised 28.7%.^[1] — Yulia Romero • Talk to me! 15:31, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

^ Hiroaki Kuromiya (2003). Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s–1990s. Cambridge University Press. pp. 41–42. ISBN 0521526086.

[FTdon41-1] Hiroaki Kuromiya (2003). Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s–1990s. Cambridge University Press. pp. 41–42. ISBN 0521526086.

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