found this earlier ~
We know the necessary conditions for peace:
(1) international guarantees that Ukraine and Georgia will not join NATO;
(2) substantial political and fiscal autonomy for eastern provinces, but not independence or political integration with Russia;
(3) removal of heavy weaponry from the eastern provinces. Then all the parties should agree on Ukraine as a neutral country in a free trade arrangement with both the EU and Russia. Russia should accept that it does not own Ukraine and that — within this constraint of Austrian-type neutrality – Ukraine is free to choose its own path. The Ukrainian government should accept equal status for Russian-speaking Ukrainians as for Ukrainian speakers, and remove the grounds for Russian speakers fearing that the Kiev government is using the civil war to get the West to bolster the ascendancy of Ukrainian speakers over them.
the full blog is from a certain Robert Wade in england. he offers a different view from what we are used to seeing:
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationaldevelopment/2015/02/19/robert-wade-rethinking-the-ukraine-crisis/