All of Ukraine was socialist up until the dissolution of the USSR. But after the 2014 maidan coup, the donbass republics held a referendum to separate, that 87% of the population supported. The nazi kiev regime has been attacking them ever since.
They certainly have socialist sympathies, but more importantly they are fighting and dying in an anti-imperialist struggle against Ukraine.
All of Ukraine was socialist up until the dissolution of the USSR. But after the 2014 maidan coup, the donbass republics held a referendum to separate, that 87% of the population supported. The nazi kiev regime has been attacking them ever since.
They certainly have socialist sympathies, but more importantly they are fighting and dying in an anti-imperialist struggle against Ukraine.
Read this recent article by the Russian communist party on their support for the republics: https://cprf.ru/2022/05/in-ukraine-russia-is-fighting-neo-nazism/