Aaron Korewa: Putin’s latest Ukraine gambit – A puppet government in exile
Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (L) attend a Security Council meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on August 12, 2015.
It appears that Russian President Vladimir Putin is losing the war in Ukraine. Gone are the talks about seizing so-called Novorossiya - the strip of land from Kharkiv to Odesa - and establishing a land bridge to occupied Crimea.