Domestic Sources of the Donbas Insurgency
Journal: PonarsEuarasia - Policy Memos
Year: 2014

The armed conflict in the Donbas has been widely portrayed in Western policy circles and mainstream media as a result of Russia’s covert military aggression against Ukraine with little local support. On April 13, Ambassador Samantha Power, the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, compared events in the region to Russia’s intervention in Crimea, stating that there was “nothing grassroots-seeming about it.”1 Three former U.S. ambassadors to Ukraine, in a joint article in late April