Ukraine instigated this war through NATO expansion. Russia wasn't looking to install missiles in Ukraine facing west, Nato however wanted to place missiles in Ukraine facing east. How is that so hard for the CNN MSBC mob to not understand, if they continued neutral status it wouldn't have started. The annexed territories should be given autonomy,not join Russia but I do appreciate they are mainly Russian speaking and just like Albanians in Bosnia and Kosovo they were facing persecution from Ukrainians and ignorance and exclusion from the government. NATO broke up Serbia,when they felt the ethnic minorities were not being represented, Russia is using the same methodology for these parts of Ukraine. Its just the wests global double standard that is being questioned here. Personally I don't agree with Serbia or Ukraines sovereignty being broken up.Minorities should either assimilate or move. But NATO started this conflict, Russia was provoked into action.