Are you pining for Texas? You may be, after the people there, recently moved in from across the Rio Grande, vote to side with Mexico. Then what?
The Russians living in the Ukraine who wish to be part of Russia simply need to move BACK to Russia, not carve out a piece of the historic Ukraine to give to the Russians.
Ethnic cleansing “is a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas. (Commission of Experts Established Pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 780)”.
The Crimea was part of Russia until 1954. I don’t get why people can’t secede from any country if that is what they want. Why should Ukraine be able to use force to keep that miserable country intact?