December 2019 could become a decisive month for Ukraine. On December 3, a NATO Senior Leader Meeting will begin in London, and on December 9, the Normandy Four (Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany) will hold a long-awaited peace summit in Paris. Meanwhile, if the tangled energy issues dividing Russia’s Gazprom and Ukraine’s Naftogaz are to be resolved before 2020, this must happen before December 13.
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Stephen Blank: Ukraine faces a decisive December in a rapidly deteriorating geopolitical climate
Flags mounted on the official cars are seen in Berlin on June 11, 2018, during a Normandy Format meeting of foreign ministers from France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia on the conflict in Ukraine.
