Situationen i Ukraina just nu.

After the Russian Empire annexed Crimea (1783), Ushakov personally supervised the construction of a naval base in Sevastopol and the building of docks in Kherson. During the Second Russo-Turkish War (1787-1792) he brilliantly defeated the Turks at Fidonisi (1788), Kerch Strait (1790), Tendra (1790), and Cape Kaliakra (1791). In these battles, he demonstrated the excellence of his innovative doctrines in the art of naval fighting.

In 1798 Ushakov was promoted to full admiral and sent to the Mediterranean to support Suvorov's Italian campaign in command of a joint Russian-Turkish fleet. This expedition started with the conquest of the French departments in the Ionian islands, only acquired the year before from the demised Republic of Venice in the Treaty of Campo Formio, culminating in the siege of Corfu (1798-1799) and leading to the subsequent creation of the Republic of Seven Islands. Ushakov's squadron then blocked the French bases in Italy, notably Genoa and Ancona, and successfully assaulted Naples and Rome.

Denis Pushilin, one of the leaders of the Donetsk People’s Republic proclaimed on April 7:
“We will be creating a people’s army in the Donetsk People’s Republic starting from today,” he said at a press conference on Thursday, April 10, adding that Igor Kakidzyanov would be appointed its commander.---
“We will set up a staff and an officer corps of retired and active duty officers,” he said.

Inside the occupied Donetsk administration building, the offer of amnesty was met with derision.

"We don't recognise this regime, how can we recognise their laws?" Denis Pushilin, head of the republic's self-declared temporary government, told journalists. He accused the regime of holding double standards, arguing that it had not yet disarmed nationalist militias who supported the ouster of former president Viktor Yanukovich.

A Cossack from the nearby city of Mariupol guarding the entrance downstairs called the amnesty offer "funny" and said protestors would "stand until the end".

"Amnesty is given only when a person committed a crime and has been sentenced. What am I guilty of? This nonexistent regime wants to judge me?" said the Cossack, who would identify himself only as "Mortal," a nickname he said he received fighting in the Russian army during the first Chechen war.

The pro-Russian separatists of Donetsk, and their supporters and allies, portray themselves as the true inheritors of the Soviet sacrifice and victory in the war — as opposed to those who have taken power in Kiev and now head Ukraine’s government.

The war is seemingly uppermost in everyone’s mind. Standing on the plaza in front of the occupied building, behind an outer barricade of old tires, Sergei Latokho, 62, says his father fought in the war. And now he’s supposed to take orders from the fascists in Kiev. How are they fascists? “It’s just like 1932,” he says. He’s off by a year, but he’s referring to Hitler’s rise to power in Germany.

There’s a very popular word here: “comrade.” Just a year ago even Russian President Vladimir Putin was using “comrade” in a wry or sarcastic sense, but that’s not the case here. “Comrades!” shout the speakers, and it’s just like old times again. It’s a good word, of course. In Russian, it’s “tovarishch,” which was the favored greeting in the communist days even though it’s related to the words for trade or trader.

According to the chairman of labor union of miners of Donbass, all that occurs in Donetsk became possible with full connivance and support of local authorities.

- This mess isn't necessary to us. I often talk and I explain to miners that separatism isn't necessary to us, after all if separatists win, the nearest mine will be in Vorkuta. Separatism is maintained by cheapskates who made nothing, and want big pensions. Among Donetsk separatists street muggers from Krasnoarmeysk, Gorlovka are generally noticed... them there bring. There are also tourists who the disadvantaged and are ready for kopek and native to kill mother, - Nikolay Volynko declared.

Svetlana Vorosilovina was adamant that the Donbass region could not stay with the west of the country, “because there is always the danger that those fascists from the Maidan [the centre of protests in Kiev] will come and do terrible things. Did you say you were in the Maidan? Then you must have seen they beheaded people there?” Mrs Vorosilovina, 76, simply would not accept that it did not happen.

They want us to surrender our weapons; what will we have to defend ourselves when the fascists from Kiev come?” Aleksei Babanin, who was carrying a baseball bat, wanted to know. “If they storm us, they will end up by killing a lot of civilians. Then we will definitely need Russian peacekeepers,” he stated.