He tried. But Ukrainians wouldn’t have it.
Putin’s forces do remain in the east though: Donetsk/Donbass. Thousands killed. I know someone here in US on asylum from the conflict...Many of the people there are ethnic Russians or mixed part Ukrainians...
Not a happy place to be for all affected.
It’s impossible to intelligently discuss the situation without first acknowledging that present-day affairs there are the direct and proximate result of the Hillary Clinton-John McCain directed coup of its previous, legitimate government, and subsequent installation of a globalist kleptocracy.