Still looking out for it. The situation is now worse and what was possible  a week ago by reforms and reorganisation of the political landscape has now vanished. What had started as a Ukrainian political stand off and should be just that has now turned into a stand off between President Obama and President Putin leaving no room for an easy de escalation and is feeding hard liners of both sides as the sanctions and heated arguments flying around prevent the two powers to play their role of moderator. The sanctions reinforce East Ukrainian fears that there is an international support to target the only support they may be able to have should the Kiev gov to go after them for a revenge and forces scores of them to go back to Russia as it happened in the Baltics and it prevents the Kremlin to have a reassuring tone securing Easterners that they watch their back and encourage them to show patience and engage in the political compromise.