Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Boiling the Frog: Another Guest Blog Post on Ukraine, Russia and the Donbass War at The Power & The Money


It has been more than three weeks since the Minsk II ceasefire was supposed to go into effect. The agreement was supposed to create a 100 km wide corridor where no heavy weapons — artillery, tanks, etcetera — would be allowed. The corridor ran from the Russian border through Lugansk all the way along the long of contact down to the Black Sea. The OSCE is supposed to to verify the ceasefire.

Most artillery has been pulled back and fighting along the line of contact has ceased, other than small sporadic clashes along the line. There are, however, two notable exceptions.

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