Is There a Massive Escalation of Violence in Ukraine?

Right now, there has not been a massive escalation u a violence outside of the areas where there has been fighting for several years. The fear is that russian troops are going to par pate with the separatists in attacking and taking those territories from the ukranian government. It would be not at all inconceivable for a conflict that started that way to spread to a much wider part of ukraine. And it's one of those things we will talk some more about, how the western left, sometimes, i don't want to be like ase. But how the on line left talks about poton sometimes.