After witnessing nearly eight years of the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine, one would think the international community would be clear-eyed about what kind of a war is being waged in the Donbas region and who is responsible for it. France and Germany’s recent strange attempts at whataboutism, spurred by a Ukrainian drone strike last week, unfairly let Moscow off the hook for the conflict it keeps alive and kicking.
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Doug Klain: France and Germany seem to forget who’s behind Russia’s war on Ukraine

A woman holding a portrait of her dead son cries during a church service commemorating the co-called - Cyborgs - Ukrainian servicemen killed while defending the Donetsk airport in 2015 during the war against Russia-backed separatists in the east of the country, Kyiv, Jan. 21, 2020.