A major foreign policy challenge that will confront the new U.S. administration from day one is Ukraine and its conflict with Russia. The February 2015 Minsk II settlement that was to end the fighting in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region has yet to be implemented.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Fiona Hill, Steven Pifer: Dealing with a simmering Ukraine-Russia conflict
Pro-Russian separatists troops leave their position during withdrawal in the village of Petrovske, some 50 km from Donetsk, on October 3, 2016.
Ukraine's army and pro-Russian separatists both announced on October 1 the pull back of their troops from a small eastern city as agreed in a demilitarisation accord signed last month.Ukrainian military spokesman Valentin Chevchenko told AFP that both sides had moved their forces to several kilometres (miles) away from Zolote. (AFP)
