Brandishing a yellow hunk of metal from what he claimed was a public bus hit by a missile from pro-Russian separatists, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko made an emotional plea for western assistance during his speech at the World Economic Forum at Davos. His appeal didn’t go unnoticed. The increasing brutality of the war in eastern Ukraine is now prompting policymakers in Washington and elsewhere to debate stepping up assistance to Kiev’s military. Yet the future of Ukraine’s beleaguered democracy won’t be determined solely on the battlefield. Equally important, perhaps, are the delicate negotiations between Kiev’s new finance minister and a …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
