The Kiev Maidan regime seems overconfident. If it really had the upper hand, it would not need to announce a concession up front.
And if the operations in the Donbass bloody its nose - wait for more to follow. Moscow is going to go for the jugular. To the Russians, they face a weak enemy.
Who cannot dislodge them in its own backyard. No it isn’t Crimea - but Russia’s objective is not to occupy Ukraine but to demonstrate to Kiev no solution can happen except on Moscow’s terms.
That will become clear soon enough.
If I recall the Army and police were forbidden from interfering with the insurrectionists in Kiev even as they threw firebombs onto the cops. Now that same group is going to kill people that are protesting them. I smell a Globalist/Soros rat.