Russia has what it wants,Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions. To me anything else is part of the negotiations. The goal was never the Ukraine but the land east of the Dnieper River , a graph you showed on an earlier article
( 2010 Presidential electoral map of Ukraine, showing where
"Russian-friendly" Yanukovych beat the "EU-friendly" Tymoshenko.) shows it perfectly in my minds eye.
Russia has what it wants,Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions. To me anything else is part of the negotiations. The goal was never the Ukraine but the land east of the Dnieper River , a graph you showed on an earlier article
( 2010 Presidential electoral map of Ukraine, showing where
"Russian-friendly" Yanukovych beat the "EU-friendly" Tymoshenko.) shows it perfectly in my minds eye.