Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Trudy Rubin: West must outsmart Putin
Women with their children, refugees from Donetsk and Lugansk regions, receive humanitarian aid from the UN mission in Yalta, some 142 km from eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, on August 2, 2014. The employees of the Ukrainian Agency for Refugees transferred 12 tons of humanitarian aid to the families left in the zone of anti-terrorist operation (ATO) and accommodated in a recreation centre on the coast of Azov Sea. AFP PHOTO/ ALEXANDER KHUDOTEPLY
The Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster should have been a wake-up call for Vladimir Putin. It wasn’t.
Instead of decreasing aid for pro-Russian separatists who almost certainly shot the plane down with a Russian missile, Putin is upping the ante. While denying any responsibility for the 298 dead, he is sending additional troops to the Ukrainian border and preparing to send more deadly weapons to the separatists.
