@Moon @awl It'd bring its own mess with it but that should be something Ukraine should agree to. However, Russians seem to think that Ukrainians aren't a separate identity, just uppity speakers of a Russian dialect in denial. Even if Russia only took Donetsk, Luhansk, and made them renounce any claims on Crimea, you'd have a lot of each ethnicity left behind on each side and you'd need a population exchange, and those rarely go well.