The government in Kiev denies that it has attacked positions in the Donbas region, a Russian-majority territory, while the separatists launched an evacuation plan in the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in Ukraine.
The government in Kiev denies that it has attacked positions in the Donbas region, a Russian-majority territory, while the separatists launched an evacuation plan in the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in Ukraine.
The solution that Putin would see would be to not attack, but to force a deal that utterly humiliates Ukraine and the USA, such as formal neutrality and ceding the eastern regions in their entirety to the breakaway republics.