<blockquote>'I am partly Russian, my first language is Russian and no one here is suppressing my right to speak in Russian. Putin's reasons for protecting the Russian speaking population in Ukraine are a complete nonsense.'
- Oleksandr Buryan in Poltava, Ukraine
'I live in Donetsk and I am Russian-speaking Ukrainian. From Friday Donetsk is overcrowded with outsiders whose job is to pretend to be us (locals). On Saturday they staged the protest meeting with Russian flags, and even announced a people's governor, right on the square - a person who no one had heard about before. I do not know what is happened in other eastern Ukrainian cities, but it looks like the same scenario as in Donetsk.'
- Andrey in Donetsk, Ukraine (
Ukraine army on alert after Russia approves troops, March 2, 2014)</blockquote>
Context<blockquote>
(Recall ambassadors) - 'Canada recalling ambassador from Moscow over Russian intervention in Ukraine'</blockquote>