the russians absurdly claimed that 97% voted to join russia. in early april putin sent his army and security forces into southeastern ukraine to generate illegal arm formations and puppet governments in what we know as dombas. you can see this on the map, in the right-hand portion, the eastern portion of the country. 14,000 ukrainians have died in the war and more die each week. in july 2014 these russian led airliner en route from amsterdam to malaysia killing all 298 people on board. we, the europeans and most of the west impose economic sanctions and kicked the russians out of the g8. beginning in 2014 we and nato began to provide military assistance to ukraine's armed forces in the form of training,