Russia's War Against Ukraine
Chrystia Freeland: Russia has already lost the war
: A night view of the Sevastopol harbour on March 7, 2014. France said on March 7 there could be no referendum on the future of Crimea unless Ukraine decided to organise one.\"The territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine are non-negotiable,\" President Francois Hollande said after a meeting with Ukraine's Vitali Klitschko, the former boxer who was a leading figure in the protest movement that ousted a pro-Moscow government in Ukraine.AFP PHOTO/Filippo MONTEFORTE
Over the past two weeks, the residents of Kyiv have lived through its bloodiest conflict since the Second World War, watched their reviled president flee and a new, provisional team take charge, seen Russian troops take control of part of the country, and heard Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, assert his right to take further military action. Yet the Ukrainian capital is calm.
