The situation in Kiev did not directly affect farmers and villagers in east Ukraine.<br /><br />But there are few employment opportunities in a Cossack town near the Ukraine-Russia border and every promise of investment by the old government was broken. <br /><br />In 1932, the area was the breadbasket of the Soviet Union before it suffered a famine that killed an estimated six million people.<br /><br />Residents of this town near Kharkiv speak Russian, but say they feel Ukrainian and are now worried about their country's relationship with Russia.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's David Chater reports from the Ukrainian-Russian border, near the city of Kharkiv.
