What Does That Mean for Ukraine?

By recognizing those two areas as republics, was effectively ending a peace process that he himself had been asking kiev to observe because he saw it as advantageous to moscow. And and the ukranian government were not very keen on this at all, because they felt that if they followed that process, they would have to talk to these separatists. So in a sense, we we didn't quite see that coming because of the lip service that am puten has been paying to this process over the last week or so.