May have? They may, we don't know that, I'm just being careful
No, if you're implying that current situation is exactly what the Russians wanted, then Russians in question are imbeciles.
So, you disagree with me that insurgency in the eastern part of the country is destabilizing factor. I got it
Russia wanted most of East Ukraine and land bridge to Crimea. They didn't want to get only redneck parts of Donetsk and Lugansk.
Russia had no plans to occupy eastern parts of the country, if they had such a plan they would do it in early March/April 2014 and I don't see anybody capable to stop them, specially not Ukrainian army, to organize broader separatist movement, perhaps.
And they didn't wand sanctions as well.
Agree, no country wants sanctions imposed on itself
Really? What kind of rebels - quislings or vacationers?
Ukrainian rebels, ignoring the fact that 90% of rebels are Ukrainian citizens is just stupid and will not resolve anything. Sure, there are some "vacationers" and regular Russian army personnel and nobody is disputing that, but if you google rebels POW list you will see percentage of Ukrainian citizens/vacationers and RF army personnel captured in Luhansk and Donbas, the list and percentage will tell you "what kind of rebels" are there
Demands? What people from Kharkov or Dnepropetrovsk or Nikolaev or Mariupol or Kherson demand from Ukrainian Government?
That's really good question. Unfortunately, it is not up to me to say here what people of South/East Ukraine demands are, but if we google last local election results we can clearly see what people of South/East don't want, voting for the Oposition Bloc they rejected Poroshenko and his current policy big time. Oposition Bloc won big in the east/south including all major cities and platform they run on
Conflict in Donbas must end peacefully and by negotiating with Russia
Maximum decentralization for Ukraine
The party wants a non-aligned status for Ukraine and wants to prevent it from becoming a NATO member
Protecting the status of Russian as a regional language
Now, when you grow up a little bit more I can explain to you and then we can discuss what "more balanced approach" means