You probably won't read this after 4 days, but the way I was phrasing it was solely meant to show that the rhetorical question asking what states are between Ru

You probably won't read this after 4 days, but the way I was phrasing it was solely meant to show that the rhetorical question asking what states are between Russia and Donbas (none) is irrelevant to the point the original commenter was making.