The separatists have been heavily subsidized by Russia to the point it's sometimes been difficult to tell who is who. Not meaning to sound hostile, but what yo

The separatists have been heavily subsidized by Russia to the point it's sometimes been difficult to tell who is who. Not meaning to sound hostile, but what you just wrote has been the goal of Putin's strategy with subsidizing the separatists all along. It's to create the appearance of a genuine resistance movement that's really just an arm of the Russian military. It's Putin's MO. Part of the reason for this recent invasion is because the typical espionage and information warfare that has brought Putin success started failing.