Six years of Russia’s war against Ukraine have decimated Donbas, and the end to it is nowhere in sight. Despite Russia’s best efforts to make its puppet “Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics” financially self-sustainable, they are fully dependent on Russian funding to stay afloat. If Ukraine were to regain sovereignty over its belligerent eastern region, it would be faced with the price of restoring the region. And the price tag is too heavy for Ukraine to bear alone.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Bohdan Ben: The price of Russia’s war is too heavy for Ukraine
A pedestrian crossing sign torn by shrapnel lies on the ground in the Oktyabrsky district close to Donetsk's international airport, eastern Ukraine, on March 14, 2015.
