Eastern Ukraine: dashed hopes?
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Friday, June 26, 2020
The election of a new president in 2019 raised the prospect of a resolution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Key Points:
- The election of a new president in 2019 raised the prospect of a resolution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
- Although it appears in newspaper headlines infrequently, the conflict in eastern Ukraine has not gone away.
- In February 2020 the UN said that the conflict had claimed some 13,000 lives, since in 2014 Russian-backed separatists took control of Crimea and parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine.
- In 2019, Volodymyr Zelensky was handed a landslide election victory on the promise of peace in eastern Ukraine, or the Donbas as it is known.