Even though some Western leaders cannot bring themselves to describe what Russia is doing in Ukraine as "an invasion," Ukraine today is under a mortal threat, and according to Arkady Babchenko, Kyiv and the Ukrainian people are fighting not just to recover the Donbas and Crimea but for their survival as a nation and a state.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
The Interpreter: Ukraine now fighting not for Donbas but for its survival as a state and nation, Babchenko says
A woman wearing black clothes stands in front of wreaths and graves of Ukrainian soldiers at the Lychakiv cemetary in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on November 5, 2014, as she pays tributes to relatives who recently died during Anti-Terrorist Operations (ATO) in the eastern part of the country.
