IN A dusty Russian field close to the border with Ukraine, a fleet of nearly 300 trucks sit under the hot summer sun. Their arrival on August 14th was a sideshow to the war inside Ukraine, a piece of political sleight-of-hand that was neither a true humanitarian mission (as Moscow presented it) nor a prelude to invasion by Russian “peacekeepers” (as Kiev feared). The trucks and their contents are not decisive in themselves, but they could be part of the endgame to a conflict that has stretched over three months and cost some 2,500 lives.The war is reaching a crunch …read more
Source: The Economist
