Nolan Peterson: Journalist’s murder, Kerry trip to Moscow among events that rattle Ukraine
A soldier walks through the abandoned district of summer houses in Avdiyivka, in Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast on July 11, 2016.
Little more than two weeks ago, things were looking up for Ukraine. Fighting had tapered off in the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine and Kyiv had scored a series of diplomatic wins, including high-profile gestures of solidarity from NATO leaders at the Warsaw summit. But the good news quickly was overshadowed by events inside Ukraine and abroad that revived, once again, the cyclical worry that events in the war-torn, post-Soviet country could spiral out of control.
