The yellow press is raving that "Putin is going to annex". They care zero about people. They are apparently not human because they do not hate Russia. Donbas is a "land without people" to NATO and the US. As is Crimea or Kherson.
NATO won’t recognize the referendums of Eastern Ukraine?

Does NATO believe that Ukraine’s indiscriminate bombing of “it’s own citizens” should convince them to stay in a state that obviously HATES them?

The only analogy that suits is that of a wife beater punching and terrorizing his wife in to staying, but without the fake promises that life will be better if she stops resisting.
But of course for the West Russia and anyone who does not agree to hate it are subhuman. So Donbas or Crimea are just "territories". Russia "invaded" Ukraine, by interfering with a years-long extermination of civilians. In Donbas, there are millions of kids, born after 2014, who have been living under bombs ALL THEIR LIVES. For allegedly being "terrorists", as Ukrainian government calls them. American press, calling itself "free media", is a bunch of heartless soulless psychos who will NEVER actually go there and FEEL IT.