Oct. 26, 2014 Parliamentary Election
OP-ED
John E. Herbst: Ukraine contests an election as it fears a truce

A local boy looks out of a bus window at a check point maned by Ukrainian forces near the town of Debaltseve, in Donetsk Oblast, on Sept. 25, 2014.
A junction of war and politics dominates public life in Ukraine as autumn settles firmly in Kyiv. An unequal cease-fire this month in southeast Ukraine will let Moscow maintain there a core of the invasion force it sent in last month. This has Ukraine's political elite, feeling too-little-supported by the West, searching in disparate directions for a way to avoid the country's further dismemberment.