KYIV, Ukraine—A Russian bank in the historic heart of Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, has become the epicenter of an escalating crisis that has Ukrainians doubting whether a political solution is still possible to end a three-year-old war against a combined force of pro-Russian separatists and Russian regulars.
On March 13, protestors built a wall of cinder blocks, and laid sandbags and barbed wire to seal off a branch of the Russian state-owned Sberbank located just blocks from the Golden Gate, the site of the main gate to Kyiv’s medieval fortifications.
By Friday, the protesters—who comprised university students, political activists, and military veterans—had been …read more
Source: The Daily Signal
