A new turn in the Minsk negotiating process has accompanied the sharp drop in fighting in Ukraine’s east over the past six weeks. Both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table, the changes have come from a growing realization in the Kremlin that its policy of aggression Ukraine is failing.Since it launched its undeclared, hybrid war in the Donbass in April of 2014, Kremlin policy has been to destabilize the reform government in Kyiv by engaging in low-intensity conflict that would not provoke opposition or counter-measures from the U.S. and Europe. Things didn’t go exactly according to plan, however. …read more
Source: The American Interest
