By the way, you guys are cheering on the progress of the rebels, and apparently think that this issue can be fully resolved just by rebels pushing off Ukrainian military, taking over cities, and holding their territory at a new border. As if by succeeding in this, they will win and the fight will be over. Don't fool yourselves. There are a lot of people living in those areas, especially cities, who do not support Russia, and do not want to join it (you are also probably fooling yourselves if you think Russia will allow Novorussia to exist as an independent country). Many Ukrainians who live in the cities, that these rebels are forcefully taking over, have sworn to fight off Russian invaders by any means necessary, including using guerilla warfare. Russia will likely have a similar result from their invasion of Ukraine that USA had after invading Iraq: very prolonged fighting from insurgency, with a lot of lives and wealth wasted from an enemy that you dpcan not even recognize or know is even there. There was one chance for this to resolve peacefully: allow Eastern Ukraine to actually vote on whether they want to be a part of Ukraine, or how autonomous they want to be. Sadly Russia completely ruined that chance by making up lies that the government in Kiev is Fascist, that they wanted to ban Russian language and make Russians second class citizens, and other such bullshit, until some of the more crazy, violent, and gullible people in Eastern Ukraine (like you guys) decided to take up arms and break away by force, by taking over buildings, shooting civilians and government officials, and starting a civil war. You guys obviously don't remember, demonstrably having no long term memory at all, but this civil war started out as just a bunch of armed hooligans going around shooting people and taking over buildings. Nothing more. It wasn't until soviet troops and weapons entered the country that this turned into a full on war with civilian casualties.