Yesterday, thousands marched in Kyiv and twenty other cities across Ukraine to protest that other Ukraine controversy that just won’t go away. On October 1, Ukraine’s president signed the Steinmeier Formula, a framework for eventually holding elections in Ukraine’s occupied east and giving them special status, which many are convinced will lead to Ukraine’s dismemberment.
After signing the Steinmeier Formula, Ukraine woke up with two eternal questions: what to do and who to blame? Some also started questioning where to emigrate. The problem is not in the Steinmeier Formula itself, which we still only partly know. The problem is that Ukrainians still have not reached a compromise on what to do with the Donbas. So now there are only two solutions—to lose the country or to lose the Donbas.
