Rodion_Romanovic wrote:Not recognising the Donbass as independent at this point is not useful anymore.
Maybe Putin could officially say something like that:
7 years are gone and nothing has been done. If in the next 2 weeks the Ucraine does not start officially implementing the Minsk 2 agreement I will recognize the DNR and LNR as independent states.
In order to shift the responsibility to the Ukraine and the west
That will break the Minsk agreements and leave Russia as the belligerent party.
Kiev has been trying to wiggle itself out of Minsk for the past 7 years, and you propose to give them their prize on silver platter?
Russia's also not going to get another chance to anchor the Ukraine to a federal model.