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It lows russia to maintain influence there and that's what they wanted and it holds off sanctions. and if you look at foreign minister lavrov and how he hasn't played ball in the last half a dozen meetings with secretary kerry is a good sign, jake. >> nic, does this mean anything to the protesters there on the ground where you are? >> reporter: very little. one of the leaders just as john kerry was speaking i said, what did you make of this? he wasn't watching. he wasn't aware of what had come out of geneva at that point and i think a lot of the people here have one thing in mind. they want a ...

A few moments ago that if such an idea were the case, its success would depend on what kinds of questions were being offered. but increasingly, we're seeing concessions, i think, from the government in kiev. yet another deadline passing without an obvious change in the positioning of the ukrainian military in this area here, and that question persisting in eastern ukraine -- where is the ukrainian government? where's its army? where's its police force in all of this? victor. >> wow. nick paton walsh for us in donetsk. thank you. >> all right, ukraine's decision to send forces to the eastern pa...

Question, we might say yes, i want to ukrainian, just like to have ukrainian citizenship but i would prefer my country to have closer relations with russia. and this is the thing which is right now happening in crimea, in donetsk and luhans when people supporting this idea of staying within ukrainian borders. there are a lot of people like native russians just like by origin and crimean taught us for example saying yes, we aren't ukrainians but we're ukrainian citizens and want to remain them. >> tartar muslims who were expelled from crimea by stalin, many have returned in the last years. and ...

Abroad and speaking about ukraine to many people in europe as well. and everyone was saying that yes, there is western ukraine and eastern ukraine. all the time i was trying to convince and bring facts to people that there is one ukraine but we have different people who think different way. and it's normal. it's really very well we have different points of view. it's very important to understand that yes, we have people in ukraine who might have closer relations with the european union or russia, so on and so on. the question right now is not with whom you would like to have closer relations w...

See follow-through over the next several days. but i don't think given past performance that we can count on that. >> while the separatists plot their next move, ukrainian military is going ahead with counterterrorism operations meant to retake occupied buildings and those 40,000 russian forces remain on the border waiting to see what happens next. jim maceda is live for us in donetsk. is there any sign the separatists will actually abide by this apparent treaty? >> hey there, luke. no one's enforcing the so-called deal so i'm afraid that there is no sign at all of retreat. in fact, on the con...