Following the apparent failure of the Geneva agreements, the inconceivable suddenly seems possible: the invasion of eastern Ukraine by the Russian army. Fears are growing in the West of the breakout of a new war in Europe. These days, Heinz Otto Fausten, a 94-year-old retired high school principal from Sinzig, Germany, can't bear to watch the news about Ukraine. Whenever he sees images of tanks on TV, he grabs the remote and switches channels. "I don't want to be subjected to these images," he says. "I can't bear it."
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Spiegel: War in Europe? Ukraine and the threat of wildfire
Commemoratings in Odesa on May 4. During unity rally, before soccer match, pro-Russian rebels started clashes on May 2, at least 40 people dead.
