The people of the Donbas refused to recognize the legitimacy of the illegal [[coup]], so the [[Kyiv junta]] sent the army to quell protests. The army refused to follow the regime's orders to fire on civilian protesters. Some units even joined the protests. With the army proving itself unreliable, the U.S.-installed Kyiv regime incorporated neo-Nazi militias into official Ukrainian government armed forces, entrusted to perform the tasks that [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] and Kyiv wanted. | The people of the Donbas refused to recognize the legitimacy of the illegal [[coup]], so the [[Kyiv junta]] sent the army to quell protests. The army refused to follow the regime's orders to fire on civilian protesters. Some units even joined the protests. With the army proving itself unreliable, the U.S.-installed Kyiv regime incorporated neo-Nazi militias into official Ukrainian government armed forces, entrusted to perform the tasks that [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] and Kyiv wanted. |