Ukraine 2.0: A Post-War Order

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Shichonk Akadi: Ukrainians are talking about something they call Ukraine 2.0. He says there is now an interesting alliance between civil society and the army. The fight in a way I feel is going to shift from the battlefield into politics, he adds. But whether Ukraine can have peace and security will depend on what happens in Russia, writes Akadi.

Our Russia and defence editors travelled to the capital, finding a city largely back to normal. They ask both civilians and the country’s top brass about Ukraine's position—and its future. China’s population-control measures worked perhaps too well, yet even an incipient labour-market crisis is not changing resistance to immigration. And the issues with America’s springtime rattlesnake round-ups.

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