Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
It's unfair to allow the situation in Donbass to escalate, keep condemning and blackpainting the government in Kiev, then suddenly turn a cold shoulder and ignore pleas for annexation or support, coming from the Donbass.
This is indeed a huge moral dilemma Russia faces. But Putin was very specific that the accretion of the whole Novorissiya to Ukraine and not just two of its constituent regions was the historic blunder. Thus, the task at hand as he sees it is to liberate the rest of the disputed territories, and only then he will accede to embrace the newly fledged province to Russia. The process is in the making now. Contrariwise, once he were to artificially splinter off Donbass from Novorissiya, the remaining part of it would be under severe duress of unmitigated suffering of not being able to satisfy its so much cherished yet unattainable yearning to join Russia. President of Russia simply can’t afford such a myopic stance. How can he explain away his hastiness to future generations?