Putin is KGB and knows how to spread disinformation and stage really bad things
Thank you for this post..and the perspective.
Donetsk and Kharkiv will soon be part of a separate eastern Ukraine. Russia must and will have a broad and unobstructed land bridge to Crimea, and Moscow will go to war to keep it. Donetsk is a strategic manufacturing center for Russia’s military and (like Crimea) will not be allowed to fall into NATO’s hands. We might not like what is happening in Ukraine, but it is vital to Russia’s security and it is going to happen.