A very valid point about what Putin said is the same exact issue we had here in the US, of which I have worked on a solution for. And that is, election fraud. He stated the Ukrainian constitution allows a president to appoint from Federal to local districts incumbents. If the head is corrupt then the whole tree becomes infected. We had a similar issue with fraud, but where counters determined the results. Both issue are due to lack of transparency. So, maybe part of the solution to a peace deal, would be to satisfy these major issues in my next post.