Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Reid Standish: Is Putin covering up the deaths of Russian soldiers in Ukraine?
A Ukrainian soldier walks next to a destroyed tank allegedly belonging to pro-Russian militants near the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk on Aug. 21, 2014.
With Russian soldiers fighting in eastern Ukraine, Russian soldiers are also all but certainly dying there. Now, Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be mounting a campaign to find out that his constituents don't find out about that unpleasant and politically explosive fact.