The Kremlin had hoped that by fomenting a separatist insurgency in east Ukraine’s Donbas region, Ukraine could be snapped back into the Russian orbit, but the strategy appears to have backfired, say analysts.
The debate over whether Ukraine should look west and align with the European Union or east towards Moscow appears to be over — at least for now.
This month’s presidential election appears to many as another major stage in Ukraine’s journey to break free of Russia and carve out an independent future for itself free of constraints imposed by the Kremlin.
It is the first, they say, since the Soviet …read more
Source: Voice of America
