Western Ukrainians, who are the most rabid supporters of Ukrainian Nationalism, view most Eastern Ukrainians as subhuman.

Here is one of them advocating to use anyone who opposed the Maidan as cannon fodder, at gunpoint, with blocking detachments behind them:

Translation:

The fact that these two are also communists makes the regime even more angry.

I have no doubt that, if they can find a way to do it without causing a PR scandal in the West, they will imprison, torture and send them to their deaths.