Here is today's map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE)
An excerpt:
President Petro Poroshenko keeps inventing ruses to prevent the creation of an independent anti-corruption court with respected judges who would, at long last, start delivering justice to this long-suffering nation.
His latest line of attack — tested during yet another interview with yet another foreign-based journalist (Neil Buckley of the Financial Times) who doesn’t know what’s going on in Ukraine — is that Western donors cannot dictate the composition of the court because that would be an unconstitutional infringement on Ukrainian sovereignty. Easy problem to solve: Let the Western experts advise, and Ukrainians choose.
But that’s not what’s really happening