Thursday, 18 February 2016

Russia’s mixed signals on eastern Ukraine (Paul Quinn-Judge, ICG)

One of the most dangerous elements of Ukraine’s nearly two-year-old conflict remains the unpredictability of its neighbour Russia’s tactics. Despite repeated expressions of support for the Minsk peace process and recognition of Ukraine’s sovereignty over the separatist Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DNR, LNR), Moscow’s current actions in eastern Ukraine seem designed to strengthen those entities than prepare them for dismantlement.

http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/europe/ukraine/op-eds/quinn-russias-mixed-signals-on-eastern-ukraine.aspx

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