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Tango01  | 19 Jun 2018 12:22 p.m. PST |
"Today, in the eastern provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk, Ukrainian military forces are holding their positions along lines of contact against ethno-Russian separatists backed by Moscow. Along the 500-kilometer de facto border, both sides regularly violate the fragile cease-fire agreement brokered in Minsk three years ago by Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany. A clear political solution has yet to emerge, but Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko and Germany's Angela Merkel have publicly indicated they both support the establishment of a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operation to set conditions for a political resolution. For Kiev, hopes to regain Crimea are rapidly deteriorating, as Russia continues to deepen its ties to the pro-Russian Crimean government while building a symbolic bridge connecting the city of Kerch to the Russian mainland. The humanitarian crisis is also dire. These conflicts have already claimed over 10,000 lives since early 2014 and displaced an estimated 1.6 million within Ukraine's pre-invasion borders…."
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