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This might be helpful as well, a language map of Ukraine I found on wikipedia. The red areas are the areas with a majority of Russian speakers, in Crimea and the southeast. It's a census from 2001 too, so it's not like this is a recent thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Ukraine#/media/File:UkraineNativeLanguagesCensus2001detailed-en.png
Here's another wikipedia map of the area called Donbas. It lines up pretty well with the Russian speakers in the first map. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donbas#/media/File:Donetsian_Region_in_Ukraine_(claims_hatched).svg
Now here's where things get complicated. Eastern Ukraine and Crimea have a pretty stark political split that also follows these lines. Here's an election map from 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%94%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80_2010_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%85-en.png
Yanukovich, the blue guy, was overthrown in the Euromaiden coup in 2014.
Interestingly, in 2019 a certain Russian speaking presidential candidate from Eastern Ukraine ran for president and won, with his strongest political support coming from these same regions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Ukrainian_presidential_election#/media/File:2019_Ukrainian_presidential_election,_round_2.svg
I don't claim to fully understand the history of the country, or the various coups/revolutions, or even really what modern Ukraine is like, but whatever is going on it probably has something to do with this.