What will it do—Not much in the world—but its designed for Russians not people in other lands. IF accepted it means a whole new definition of the war. Frankly, he should have done this a year ago. It will be as fair as they wish it to be. As for Corruption—Ukraine has a known dose of that (like Russia) and to a degree—The USA. Once Donbas becomes a state of the Federation of Russia—any attack will be seen as an attack on all of Russia. (A bit like NATO—an attack on one is an attack on all). Then Ukraine has a choice-Let them go and make peace with Putin, or Declare war on Russia herself.
No.. Ukraine has the upper hand in warfighter quality, modern weaponry and motivation to defend their lives, families and homeland. Let Putin drag a gaggle of unmotivated, untrained, ill-equipped conscripts onto the battlefield. What Ukraine doesn’t chew up of those conscripts on the battlefield, they will in a subsequent insurgency.
As was proved in Afghanistan, time is not on Russia’s side. Ultimately, they will fail.
You forget that thousands of Russian speakers from the Donbas are currently in the Ukrainian Army fighting Russians. I guess Putin will declare certain suburbs of Chicago part of Russia soon since there are so many ethnic Russians in places like Skokie, Illinois.
My wife is one of those Russian speakers from Alchevsk in Lugansk. Seems odd that so many of her family and friends are patriotic Ukrainians when Russia sez they should be clamoring to join the pigs and apes who invaded.