Suddenly there is new attention to crisis management in the eastern Europe after Russia accepted out of the blue the idea of a UN peacekeeping operation to augment efforts to implement the Minsk Agreement on the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Carl Bildt: Is peace in Donbas possible?
A soldier looks in binoculars at the russian-backed separatists in several hundred meters from the spot at the positions near Luhanske, Donetsk region on July 31.
