Hopefully this is as bad as sentiment in Crimea gets:

Sevastopol (Ukraine) (AFP) - Waving placards calling for “Mother Russia” to save them, thousands of people rallied Sunday in Ukraine’s port city of Sevastopol to denounce the political upheaval in Kiev as fears grow that the country could splinter.

Ukraine: Parliament boss takes presidential powers Associated Press
Home to Russia’s Black Sea fleet for some 200 years, Sevastopol in Ukraine’s autonomous Crimea region is a bastion of pro-Moscow sentiment in the deeply divided ex-Soviet state where mass protests have forced Kremlin-allied president Viktor Yanukovich to flee the capital.

Amid fears that it could become a flashpoint for pro-Russian separatists, the United States, Germany, France and Poland made appeals Sunday for Ukraine’s national integrity to be preserved.

In a phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel both leaders opposed partition, German officials said.

How much of popular opinion such a crowd actually represents is difficult to say, polls taken in 2012 capped support for rejoining Russia at 2 percent in the eastern regions, doubtless much higher after recent events. I get the impression that what people want most is stability, as long as the next government isn’t as obviously corrupt as Yanukovych was and doesn’t engage in any reprisals the separatist sentiment will probably die down again.