The Dangers of Pro-Russian Sentiment in Ukraine

Do you think around 2014, and certainly after, the narrative about the extent of pro-Russian sentiment in Crimea was overstated? What we know is that I'm the director of the Ukrainian research institute at Harvard. The time for that to happen was in the late 1990s. Since then, the number of people who were accepting and embracing the Ukrainian state and putting the Crimea was growing. Before the start of invasion in 2014, what we had the data was that up to 40% of the population of the Crimea. It's not that they wanted to join Russia, but they actually preferred the arrangement in which Russia and Ukraine would stay separate states.