Fighting has resumed between the Ukrainian military and Russian-backed rebels in Donbass who accused the government in Kyiv of preparing for a large-scale offensive. Troops in the region were, indeed, put on high alert, and when asked, a representative to the peace talks said Kyiv would not rule out the possibility of war. To be clear, Ukraine has reason to want to provoke Russia. Doing so would perhaps breathe life back into the talks for implementing the Minsk Agreement, which was signed back in 2015. Kyiv wants to bring the United States into the talks, and Russia’s participation in some kinetic activity in Donbass, Kyiv figures, might do the trick. After all, the events in southeastern Ukraine are not just a Ukrainian problem or even a European problem but a truly global problem, or so argues Ukraine.
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