Sure they can have autonomy. All they need to do is throw down their weapons and surrender.
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They’ll do just that (sort of) once there’s agreements on the conditions. After all they disarmed once before and look where they’re at now...I don’t think they’ll do that without some sort of backup....and it won’t be a surrender as Poroshenko called for...it will be “agreements” etc.
The idea is Ukraine will remain Ukraine.....there is no win because it is Ukraine. Russia knew that from the beginning....and so did Porosehnko...it’s the Oligarchs and the Militia’s who weren’t about ready to forfeit their control of the East....they’ve been running it all in Ukraine for eons ...it’s like taking down the mafia!