If one ignores the images of masked men armed to the teeth and just listens to Russian television, the drama in eastern Ukraine can sometimes seem little more than a quarrel among constitutional scholars. The gunmen, denounced by the Ukrainian government as violent separatists, are invariably referred to by Russian officials and their state-controlled news media simply as “supporters of federalization.”
Russia's War Against Ukraine
New York Times: In Ukraine, Russia plays a weighted word game
Pchelkino village residents argue with Ukrainian soldiers, whose path they blocked, on April 16 in Donetsk Oblast.
