article_snippet.sent: Ukraine is deeply divided, and Ukraine has been for years.
article_snippet.sent: About a third of the population speaks Russian as opposed to Ukrainian.
article_snippet.sent: Whether Ukraine should be drawn into the orbit of Russia or the West is a visceral issue, a question for many Ukrainians not of politics but of identity.
article_snippet.sent: And with Russia's subsequent annexation of Crimea and Russia support for Russian-speaking separatists in eastern Ukraine, the internecine animosity made the ugly transformation into war.
article_snippet.sent: With a government toppled and armed conflict in the east, Ukrainians have reason to want each other dead.
article_snippet.sent: It is aimed at destabilizing the internal political situation in Ukraine and discrediting the political choice of the Ukrainian people.
highlights_snippet.sent: Five recent deaths heighten suspicions on both side of Ukraine's ethnic divide .
  