I got the sense they were putting a stabilizing veneer on the whole crumbling mess. Ukraine is done for as a nation. Sorry. And the problem isn’t even mainly the separatists, its economic. The place is going to look like Zimbabwe in a matter of months.
Ukraine was a jewel of USSR, a place of the most fertile land in the world and a center of Soviet military industrial complex, employing millions of highly educated professionals.
In 1993 it still had armed forces equal to modern US military in manpower and a number of assets.
Just twenty years of rule by grift and ethnic division and look at what happened.