<i>Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia</i>
Journal: Journal of Cold War Studies
Year: 2018

Nearly four years after the annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of the war in eastern Ukraine, there is no resolution in sight. Fighting continues, and the February 2015 Minsk agreement brokered by Germany, France, Russia, and Ukraine that was intended to end the conflict remains in limbo. Each side accuses the other of not fulfilling its obligations under the agreement. In this prolonged standoff between Russia and the West, everyone loses, argue Samuel Charap and Timothy J. Colton. Ukraine i