Keep shelling them civilians in those two regions, for sure, you know, like the Ukie Banderites had been doing 8-years prior to them two regions asking Russia to intervene.
Ops wait, they still are....
‘A “red line” in innocent blood: US M777 howitzer massacre civilians in Donetsk’
http://thesaker.is/a-red-line-in-innocent-blood-us-m777-howitzer-massacre-civilians-in-donetsk/
“In response to this massacre, both the LNR and DNR have asked to be incorporated into the Russian Federation.”
“The criminal Kiev regime’s shelling killed 13 civilians in Donetsk”
https://rutube.ru/video/ec3df5bc2d1f2e8b8f01d83f0e90bd18/
They were both shelling and murdering each other. Civil wars are hell, especially when Russia is the one stirring them up for the purpose of a pretext to intervene, as Putin did in Crimea and Georgia, and were doing in Donetsk. Banderas has a statue, sure. So does Chmelnicki. Should some anti-fas come over and tear them down? Mostly, though, the Ukies are reacting to a threat from Putin, and the Russians are reacting to the Ukies’ reaction, and so it escalates. Banderas would never have agreed to a Jewish President, let alone to one running on a platform of making peace in Donetsk and cracking down on corruption. He was reacting to mass starvation, collectivisation, and the supposed role of “the Jooos!” to both calamities in his primitive little mind. Putin didn’t “intervene” because of anything other than that high gas prices made it doable.
No one can or will explain why ‘winners’ need to attack with all their forces and foreign weapons to prevent a referendum.
Turns out, as you say, that they have been attacking for 8 years and have never stopped.
I saw Putin’s speech and press conference. He did not mention *tactical nuclear weapons*. That was slipped into the story by the Atlanticist press.