KYIV, Ukraine—This is Ukraine’s sixth consecutive New Year at war.
In the frigid steppes of the country’s southeastern Donbas region, tens of
thousands of Ukrainian troops remain engaged in a defensive, limited conflict
against a Russian invasion force. Europe’s only ongoing land war has so far
killed more than 13,000 people and casualties still occur daily.
However, even as fighting continues in the Donbas, Kyiv and Moscow
recently found common ground on another, distant battlefield. On Dec. 30, the
two former Soviet allies agreed to a new five-year deal for Russian gas to
continue transiting through Ukrainian pipelines to the European Union.
The negotiations were a contentious nail-biter, coming …read more
Source:: The Daily Signal
