Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Chicago Tribune: The West needs to push back on Ukraine
A pro-Russia activist guards a barricade ouside the regional state building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on April 15, 2014. Ukraine's acting president accused Russia on April 15 of harbouring \"brutal plans\" to destabilise the southeast of his ex-Soviet country by backing separatist militants. \"Russia had and continues to have brutal plans,\" Oleksandr Turchynov told a session of parliament. \"They want to set fire not only to the Donetsk region but to the entire south and east -- from Kharkiv to the Odessa region.\". AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER KHUDOTEPLY
In its responses to Vladimir Putin's flagrant aggression against Ukraine, the Obama administration has been playing catch-up — and without much sense of urgency or resolve. Small wonder, then, that the Russian government and its allies in Ukraine have shown little hesitancy in reaching for what they want.
