Steven Pifer: Ukraine’s challenges for 2016
A picture taken on Dec. 22, 2015 shows a Ukrainian serviceman patroling outskirts of the village of Pavlopil, in the Donetsk Oblast.
Ukraine faces another difficult year as it grapples with two daunting challenges: Russia’s continuing effort to use the unsettled conflict in the Donbas to destabilize Kyiv, and the need to implement critical economic reforms.