For more than five years, Russian forces and their proxies have waged a bloody war against Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. The conflict has claimed more than 13,000 lives, driven almost two million people from their homes, and caused immense material damage. France and Germany have together sought to broker peace but failed to produce a durable cease-fire—let alone a political settlement.
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A Ukrainian soldier fires at a military drone during night combat against Russia-backed separatists on the front line near Novoluhansk in the Donetsk region on Nov. 14, 2019.
