CHAPTER 11 All Quiet on the Northern Front? Limited War and Covert Action in the Russian-Ukrainian War
Journal: Leiden University Press eBooks
Year: 2024

While war rages in southern and eastern Ukraine, its northern border with Russia has been mostly quiet after Russia's withdrawal from its attack on Kyiv.This chapter investigates how both parties limit their actions on this front.Drawing on insights from limited war theory and research on covert action, as well as on data from the ACLED database, we show that the line at the border can be crossed to some extent without lasting escalation.Even as incremental shifts in the types of cross-border ac