Right now people there are just afraid. They are afraid to die: they are afraid to be killed, they are afraid to starve, they are afraid to freeze to death.
And since it's Kiev that shells them, cuts their pensions, cuts transportation with the rest of Ukraine, cuts electricity, destroys gas and water pipes everyday it is no wonder that people there think that Kiev is the enemy.
BTW Russia delivers 11th humanitarian aid convoy to Donbass, as we speak. So don't be surprised that people there don't see Russia as a monster, despite that Kiev tries to portray it like that.
At the same time some people understand that Novorossia has very little ground to survive right now, politically and economically, so they ask: what's next?
One thing is clear - everybody in Ukraine currently lives worse then before, when Yanukovich was the president. Is this the price people want to pay for the Maidan? I don't know, time will tell. But I think some people in Ukraine and in Ukrainian government got way carried away with wild ideas.