The west has misread Russia’s motivations in Ukraine, and in doing so risks provoking PutinThe contest for eastern Ukraine may not be over, but when Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, described the recapture of Sloviansk at the weekend as of “huge symbolic importance”, he was not exaggerating. Other towns and cities remain in rebel hands, including the million-strong conurbation of Donetsk, but Sloviansk was the rebels’ military headquarters. The hoisting of Ukraine’s flag over the city hall marks a decisive advance for the government in the government in Kiev.Which should raise a question: where are the Russians? If President Vladimir Putin …read more
Source: The Guardian
