It wasn't disguised as anything it was a resistance against the Ukrainian Army and Nazi gangs like Azov and the child raping Tornedo Battalion being unleashed on the people in Donbass, there were no Russia soldiers there at the time, the resistance was by the local militias who had to get organized otherwise they would have been massacred like those people in Odessa, you forget or ignore at the start the people in Donbass were willing to settle for a federal autonomy set up, but Nato and their Nazi puppets thought they could have it all so decided on war against their own people, they didn't expect the Miliatia's kicking their arse at Donetsk airport and Debelsteve.