Russia’s military command chain is looking to consolidate control and discipline in part because being more assertive in eastern Ukraine entrenches Russia’s hold over Donbas. The Kremlin is also taking charge of economic reconstruction efforts in Donbas, rather than leaving this task to Russian private enterprises. Claiming dominance over Donbas’s military, bureaucratic and economic institutions […] …read more
Things are heating up in eastern Ukraine. Here are three reasons why.
