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Why Impeachment Isn’t the Top Story in Ukraine


KYIV, Ukraine—Believe it or
not, the ongoing impeachment drama in the United States wasn’t the biggest news
story this week in Ukraine.

Rather, Ukrainians are
focused on news much closer to home—the prospect of rejuvenated peace talks
with Moscow to end the war in Ukraine’s embattled eastern Donbas region that
has lasted five and a half years.

The news broke on Tuesday
when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced
his decision to accept the so-called Steinmeier Formula—a controversial
measure to hold elections in the two so-called separatist territories in
eastern Ukraine.

The plan was devised by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in 2016 when
he was foreign minister, as a way to …read more

Source:: The Daily Signal

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