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Its complicated, and this is oversimplified:

If you ever saw the film the Inspector General by Danny Kay, think of Ukraine's government as being as disfunctional and uncaring as Brottney(SP?).
However, instead of one connected oligarch like Brottney's mayor there are multiple such groups interfering and competing.


Ukraine holds a lot of keys to Russian trade.
Russia doesn't want to pay the corruption "tax" of the kleptocracy anymore.

There are a lot of Pro-Russian factions within Ukraine, for various reasons.
A major one being that people see Russia as an upgrade over the existing government.

Against the pro-Russian factions are those that think they can yet recover their country without Russian interference.
They fiercely do not want Russian control.
However, it trends that most politicians get elected by this group end up getting bought out and joining the kleptocracy.

This post is like pointing to a brick to describe a house, the issues are legion.