Nowhere To Run In Eastern Ukraine --New York Times
DONETSK, Ukraine — Teachers preside over half-empty classrooms. Cars breeze through streets once chronically choked with traffic. Restaurant windows are boarded up.
Officially, a cease-fire has been in effect in the rebel areas of eastern Ukraine since September. But with war once again looming, and artillery blasts regularly shaking the night in the capital, Donetsk, things are far from returning to normal. Another clear sign of that is the obvious depopulation of much of the rebel-held territory.
Though exact estimates vary, roughly 1.5 million people have left the rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine, out of a prewar population of about 4.5 million. United Nations figures suggest that about half went to Russia and half to other areas of Ukraine.
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My Comment: Kudos to the New York Times for finally catching up on the humanitarian crisis in eastern Ukraine. The Times should stick around .... with winter just around the corner .... this situation is only going to get worse.
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Do you still think that Russia will intervene in the near future or do you think they are going to wait to after winter? But you are indeed right that the russians are building up arms, more advanced weapon systems have been spotted so there may indeed be planned a intervention to stop this conflict once and for all. But I am very unsure of when it is going to happen. Also when will Medvedev return from the summit? Since you mentioned that the intervention could start when Medvedev returns but I diden't find any info of how long he would stay at the summit.
ASEAN summit is over. G20 summit has begun and Putin is attending. It is when Putin comes back that we will know where this conflict is heading.
The good news is that ISIS is being rolled back although the roll back will steal some headlines.
If ISIS is seen as less of a threat maybe the media will spend more time on Ukraine crisis.
They should be able to do both (walk gum and chew at the same time) but they can't.
Still I don't know what more news print will do.
The UN seems useless. A Nobel peace prize seems useless too.
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