Oh, then why are they still fighting?
Because the Ukrainians can’t stop them.
“Oh, then why are they still fighting?”
They have what they want and are simply fending off Ukrainian militia attacks as they come. So likely the fighting will never stop. The Russians have no designs on anything else, and the coup insists it has a right to inherit all of what old Ukraine possessed.
So the low level fighting will probably never stop as long as the Ukes get supported by their benefactors.