Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Vladimir Socor: Russia takes pause in military hostilities against Ukraine
Residents queue to receive humanitarian aid in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on December 11, 2014. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on December 12 said a \"real\" ceasefire was in place in Ukraine after the first 24 hours in seven months without a military casualty, although he admitted the truce was fragile.AFP PHOTO/ ALEXANDR DIMITROVSIY
Russia seems about to suspend the military phase of its multi-dimensional assault on Ukraine. The Kremlin’s “Novorossiya” project (see EDM, May 27) is shelved until further notice. Instead, Moscow is switching to what Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov has termed “a post-war phase, so to speak” (RIA Novosti, December 9).
