The newly elected president has repeatedly emphasized his commitment to achieve peace in a war-torn region. The column uses data from OSCE daily reports to investigate the effectiveness of the measures introduced by the new president. The results for summer 2019 are disappointing. The author suggests why the commitment problem is most likely to be the heart of the issue, and why a UN peacekeeping mission at the contact line is instrumental to overcome it.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Artem Kochnev: You’re in ‘Ze’-army now
An Ukrainian soldier watches for the enemy on the front line with the Russia-backed separatists near Avdiyivka, Donetsk region on July 20, 2019.
