Taras Kuzio: Ukraine’s fog of war
(File photo) Ukrainian servicemen walk behind tanks as they take part in exercises near the eastern Ukrainian city of Lysychansk, in the Lugansk region on March 27, 2015.
For all the articles written about the low-intensity war in Ukraine, few journalists and authors have actually visited the areas most affected: the two Russian-speaking regions within the Donbas. If they did, they might see that narratives that paint the conflict as a battle between Ukrainian nationalists and marginalized Russian speakers is overly simplistic and an outgrowth of four myths. The conflict in Ukraine is much more than a showdown between the Russian-speaking east and the Ukrainian-speaking west. In fact, language and cultural ties have little to with the conflict at all.
