Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Alexander Motyl: Ukraine should abandon the Donbas enclave
A ball of fire is seen following an explosion on the outskirts of eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, on Oct. 20, 2014.
Ukraine has two nonnegotiable priorities in its ongoing war with Russia: survival and reform. Ukraine must survive as a sovereign democratic state in the short term if it is to reform, and it must reform itself in the medium term in order to survive and become a prosperous and secure sovereign democratic state in the long term. Both goals can be best advanced if Ukraine washes its hands of the enclave of the Donbas region that Russia and its proxies now control.
