OP-ED
Daniel Baer: Keeping an international eye on Ukraine
Ukrainian servicemen clean their weapons on the frontline in the village of Maryinka in the Donetsk region on July 21, 2015.
For the third year in a row, August is proving a particularly deadly month in eastern Ukraine. Russian fighters, funds, weapons and equipment have kept the conflict burning—a conflict that has devastated buildings, roads and public works, led to massive population displacement and widespread human-rights abuses, and claimed the lives of nearly 10,000 people, with tens of thousands more injured.