Ukraine's very sovereign existence is a massive, daily insult to Putin. This is his chance to eliminate it.
Donald Trump’s electoral triumph and his continuing adulation of
Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin, has been greeted in Ukraine with as
much foreboding as it was probably with smug joy in the Kremlin.
His declarations since he became president-elect have only increased
fears in Ukraine that Putin will believe he can do as he pleases with
Ukraine and other parts of the former Soviet empire, whose
disintegration he has publicly lamented.
Trump has refused to condemn Putin despite overwhelming evidence he
ordered cyber espionage to meddle in the presidential election. The
incoming president has taken his time denouncing Russia for its
murderous actions in Syria and seems unconcerned by the 2014 invasion of
Ukraine, which sparked a conflict that continues today.
Intense fighting raged in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region until a
fragile ceasefire in the summer of 2015. Since then regular Russian
forces and Kremlin-sponsored “rebels” have been hemmed in the occupied
enclave. The war has caused some 10,000 Ukrainian military and civilian
deaths. Small daily clashes increase the death toll.
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Askold Krushelnycky is a British citizen and freelance journalist whose parents were refugees from Ukraine. He is the author of “An Orange Revolution – A Personal Journey Through
Ukrainian History”, which was published in 2006 by Random House/Harvill
Secker. He is working on a second book that will focus on the
turbulent events in Ukraine since the fall of 2013, when mass
demonstrations turned into revolution and, ultimately, the present
conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
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