Boris Kagarlitsky: Eastern Ukraine people’s republics between militias and oligarchs
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal has published various left viewpoints from the region on the political situation in Ukraine. These do not necessarily represent the views of the publishers.
For more by Boris Kagarlitsky, click HERE.
By Boris Kagarlitsky,
Moscow; translated by Renfrey Clarke
For more by Boris Kagarlitsky, click HERE.
August 16, 2014 – Links
International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The war between the Ukraine
government and the republics of Novorossiya [New Russia] is gradually taking on
the character of a positional stand-off. The resources of both sides are
exhausted, and fighting reserves are at an end. For the people’s republics,
defending themselves against the many times larger military forces of the Kiev
regime, the well-known principle of “a government needs to win, but for an
insurrection it is enough not to lose” operates with full force.
The
deteriorating economic situation in Ukraine, the growing demoralisation of
supporters of the Kiev regime and the gradual development of a partisan
movement on government-controlled territory together herald a new phase in a
civil war that will clearly extend far beyond the boundaries of the south-east.
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