
Putting his first boot forward: Russian troops move
The Intelligence from The Economist
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Is This the Point of Conflict?
This all goes back to 20 14, where vladimir putin annexed crimea. He also sent troops into two south eastern oblastats,. essentially donetsk and luhan sclaiming that the russian speaking people there needed protection from the ukranians. And that was the beginning of the second phase the great ucranian conflict. A peace keeping agreement was signed by all parties tat's called the minsk cords. That set down a bunch of parameters for what an eventual full scale peace might look like.
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