I gather (though of course this is not what you hear in the corporate media) that what's happened in eastern Ukraine is that, in the last few days of January, and first days of February,

The patriot, separatist "pro-russian" militias have pushed far past the liberation of the Sergei Prokofiev Airport in Donetsk, and have encircled some 5,000 regular (conscript, demoralized, ready to give up) troups of the illegitimate, NATO/CIA-backed, fascist Ukrainian government, which, to quote the poet, is "just in the jaws of ruin and Codille." 

Enter the Maüschen Merkel and the utterly Ineffectual Hollande with a face-saving Peace Proposal. Ha ha.  Will anybody notice that NATO--while still of course killing pas mal de vieilles femmes et mioches innocents with its murderous ongoing bombardments of hospitals and apartment buildings--has just  totally lost its own little World War III?