Thousands will die on each side.
The Russian Specops could all leave tomorrow and still the cities will be engulfed for weeks if not months.
Ukrainians are pissed and they are going to kill Russians. Russians are pissed and they are going to kill Ukrainians.
And the folks in Kiev don't have the means to end it.
Once this civil war is well underway it won’t matter much who started it.
A civil war would involve only Ukrainians. This is already a regional war with Russian national unlawful combatants and Russian state supported terrorism in Ukraine.
If you think this unrest is Ukraine is going to end with Russians being the only foreign nationals involved you are mistaken.
I feel so sorry for the Ukrainian people. All they want to do is go about their business, go to church, raise their families.
Fate, over the past two centuries, has not allowed them to do this.
Pray for the peace of that nation.
The ethnic divide is a fiction. Ethnic Russians took part in the Maidan same as Ukrainians. It be more accurate to say that if Russia ends its instigation and removes its special forces out of Ukraine, the “civil war” will be at an end.