On the negative side, the Donetsk Airport is still an abandoned ruin, and both Donetsk and Lugansk are still in the hands of bandits. Russia is still paying to keep the conflict simmering but the money, the weapons and the soldiers Russians are sending have decreased dramatically.
The bandits feel betrayed by Russia’s refusal to keep fighting for more territory. They still try to provoke Ukrainian armed forces into a skirmish alongside the entire demarcation line. Today, for instance, there were at least 53 instances of the bandits shooting at the Ukrainian army.
The bandits who are holding Donetsk and Lugansk are a pathetic, disgusting bunch. Constantly drunk and high, they blow up buildings, get into shootouts with each other, and entertain themselves by torturing prisoners. Clandestine citizen organizations have been after a few most vicious ones, executing them for their crimes. So there is a resistance movement.
The Ukrainian government is pushing the bandits to allow free elections to take place in the occupied areas. The local population is, for the most part, behaving according to its usual pattern: sitting there passively and waiting to see who will take power (and with it, the sacred obligation to feed them).
After Ukraine finally takes Donetsk and Lugansk back, getting the people into a passable mental state will take forever. The region is in ruins. There are 1,8 million refugees. This is a wound that will ache for decades.
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Nobody could have predicted this, of course:
German government admits it cannot account for 600,000 of its 1.1million asylum seekers – and many could be using multiple identities to travel across Europe
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3410787/German-government-admits-account-600-000-1-1million-asylum-seekers-using-multiple-identities-travel-Europe.html
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Yes, of course, there are just two refugees posing for 1 million and vicious racists stupidly believe there is a crowd.
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In Donbass, there are fearless Ukrainian guerillas causing a lot of damage to the Russian and pro-Russian invaders. Sometimes, they even paint Ukrainian yellow-light-blue flags on the Soviet monuments, such as Lenin’s statues. But in general, the mentality of the ‘masses’ is pro-Soviet, and Russia is associated with the ‘good old times’ in the USSR. It won’t be easy to change it.
On the good side, however, is the creation of help centers in the liberated regions as well as a big cultural Ukrainian program aimed at Donbass, which us underway now.
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