“You really don’t want it to start again,” war veteran turned volunteer Dima Grigorievich makes said. It was early morning on April 1, and the latest attempt at a ceasefire between Ukrainian forces and the Russian-backed separatists was just a couple of hours in. The 46-year-old doesn’t fight himself anymore, but mostly organizes logistics along the front line around Troyitske, a small village on the border of the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts. So far the shelling two kilometers from the frontline seemed to have eased down. “It’s quiet now, and that’s a very good thing,” Dima concluded.
Foreign Policy Journal: Another failed ‘ceasefire’ in Ukraine
Amid ongoing ceasefire violations and weak progress of mutual troops withdrawal in Donbas, the OSCE extends its monitoring mission mandate until Mar.31, 2018.
