A COLUMN of men in camouflage snaked through the streets of Ternopil, a sleepy town in western Ukraine, with a casket held aloft earlier this week. Yuri Dinya, a solider who died from wounds sustained in eastern Ukraine, was the latest casualty of a war that sputters along largely out of sight. Although the violence has ebbed, following a peace deal signed in Minsk last year, not one part of the peace plan has been implemented. A meeting on March 3rd between the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France ended in exasperation.
The Economist: The Minsk peace deal is going nowhere
French President Francois Hollande (L) meets with Ukrainian President Petro Porochenko (R) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel during an EU summit meeting on March 17, 2016 at the European Union council in Brussels.
