Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Sojojin Rasha da kayan aiki sun ci gaba da shiga cikin Yaƙin na biyu na Filin jirgin saman Donetsk da kuma
Yaƙin Debaltseve. Wani rahoto da Cibiyar Kula da Ayyuka ta Unitedasar Ingila ta fitar a watan Maris na 2015 ya ce "kasancewar dakarun Rasha da yawa a kan yankin ikon mallakar Ukraine" ya zama "nau'in dindindin" na yaƙin a Donbas tun daga mamayewar Agusta 2014. Bayan nasarar da Ukraine ta yi a Debaltseve, bangarorin da ke rikici sun rattaba hannu kan yarjejeniyar Minsk II don kawo karshen fadace-fadace a ranar 15 ga Fabrairun 2015. Waɗannan sharuɗɗan sun kasance masu fa'ida sosai ga Rasha, saboda sun buƙaci Ukraine ta ba da "matsayi na musamman" ga yankunan da masu neman 'yanci suka mallaka, kuma ta sake haɗa su cikin Ukraine, kwatankwacin tarayya da masu zanga-zangar magoya bayan Rasha suka yi a farkon 2014. Wannan zai haifar da "ƙuƙwalwar dabarun" Rasha a cikin Ukraine wanda za a iya amfani da shi don hana haɗuwa da wannan ƙasar a nan gaba tare da Tarayyar Turai ko NATO. A wani taron manema labarai a ranar 17 ga Disamba, 2015, shugaban Rasha Vladimir Putin ya yarda a karon farko cewa akwai kasancewar sojojin Rasha a yankin Donbas, kodayake ya ce wannan ba yana nufin cewa akwai "sojojin Rasha" a can ba. A ranar 24 ga Afrilu, 2019, Shugaba Putin ya ba da umarnin zartarwa wanda ke hanzarta aiwatar da tsarin samun dan kasa na Rasha ga mazauna yankunan da DPR da LPR ke gudanarwa. Wannan yana kama da abin da Rasha ta yi a wasu masu kare Rasha da aka kafa bayan rikice-rikicen Soviet, ciki har da Transnistria, Abkhazia, da Ossetia ta Kudu.