LOLOL do you want me to post the info (Spring of 2015?) about Russian Federation passports "being issued in Donbass" with so enthusiastic discussions under the respective blogs? back then, this info was taken seriously (despite it was faked
by many ... it wouldn't be news, so I would look it up only if you insisted ... now basically all say the other possibility, which is "Mr. Putin left Donbass behind", is what's going on:
EDIT
you may of course tell me I don't have a representative sample of opinions, and that's fine, I just wanted to react to your Kremlin line