Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Ukraine: Leave It or Freeze It

 
Resolving the Ukrainian conflict is at a stalemate, trapped somewhere between sporadic fighting and diplomatic cheap shots, despite a reduction of the military operations along the contact line.

Heavy armaments have not been withdrawn but are rarely used
Troops are redeploying but not attempting to move the frontline
Cooperation around civilian utility networks is taking place
Little progress on the original Ukraine-EU issues and the future status of the breakaway regions

Low-level fighting 

“The number of ceasefire violations have been clearly reduced since the middle of August […] when the peak of violations was the most kinetic activity in the summer,” Alexander Hug, Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, told euronews in an exclusive interview

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Source: Euronews

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