It’s not clear what Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin said to each other in their unrecorded phone call, but it is clear how that conversation registered with Moscow.
After two years of relative calm, Ukraine’s war with Russian-backed rebels took a deadly and destructive turn this week, pushing one town in the country’s eastern region to the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe.
Heavy fighting began within a day of the Trump — Putin phone discussion and was still underway on Thursday with battles stretching from Maryinka west to the town of Donetsk. In freezing weather, the shelling has driven people from their …read more
Source: Daily Kos
