Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Pavel K. Baev: Putin keeps retreating from war but cannot accept peace
Pro-Russian armed militants of a so-called "Eastern battalion" taking part in military exercises rest at a camp in the forest near the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on June 1, 2014.
The big picture of the Ukrainian conflict has changed significantly during the last week as this troubled state confirmed its hard-made European choice. The hundreds of rebels fighting in the trenches around Slavyansk and the hundreds of thousands of civilians, who are trying to make sense out of the violent disorder in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, are probably unaware of this change and may not know that the non-existent ceasefire is extended to June 30 evening.
