http://links.org.au/node/4008

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

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.

Boris Kagarlitsky: Eastern Ukraine people’s republics between militias and oligarchs

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.in/2014/08/boris-kagarlitsky-eastern-ukraine.html

Boris Kagarlitsky: Eastern Ukraine people’s republics between militias and oligarchs

                                                               Boris Kagarlitsky

Democracy and Class Struggle publishes this analysis of the situation in the Eastern Ukraine from Boris Kargarlitsky for information.

We are trying to verify what he says but if it is true what he says about Akhmetov

"The Russian press is already reporting openly on an agreement reached between the Moscow bureaucrats and the Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov ".

This is extremely concerning.

PS: We can now verify the worrying fact that Akhmetov is back on the scene from our sources.

August 16, 2014 – -- 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.