A tenuous ceasefire between Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists is holding for now, but the prospect of a political deal to end the crisis is still far away. With Ukrainian parliamentary elections seven weeks away and tensions simmering, there is little chance that Kiev will make concessions that Vladimir Putin wants before fighting breaks out again. “The Putin goal is federalization in some way creating an autonomous region inside Ukraine that would influence the whole of Ukraine, in a political way, military way, economic way, binding it with Russia and preventing the whole of Ukraine from going very rapidly to the …read more
Source: Business Insider