Uh-oh, our resident Putinista’s aren’t going to like this.
Looks like their darling “separatists” are falling apart - even with Russian weapons (including heavy anti aircraft batteries)crossing the border into their hands.
If this “separatist” movement were so popular with Ukrainian ethnic Russians, you’d think they’d do more. Perhaps they see plainly that this insurgency isn’t home grown at all - just a Russian intelligence/military creation to keep the Ukraine destabilized.
I wonder if our Putinista crowd is actively rooting for a Russian invasion of Eastern Ukraine?
You don’t understand the gambit.
For Putin, it is win, win. The west, the sanction makers, get credit for keeping eastern Ukraine. Vlad keeps Crimea.
That was the plan all along.