Judy Dempsey: Putin marches into eastern Ukraine, Europe ponders
Pro-Russian activists hold a rally in front of Ukraine's regional security service of Ukraine in Lugansk on April 6, 2014.
Russia is systematically dividing up Ukraine. On April 6–7, pro-Russian protesters occupied key government buildings in the Eastern cities of Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Luhansk. These are important cities, yet Ukrainian security forces have not defended them. It seems that Ukraine’s interim government has been completely unprepared to protect these urban centers despite weeks of propaganda and saber rattling by Russia. Kyiv had adequate warnings.
