US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is reported to have asked G7 ministers why America should care about Ukraine, which the Reuters report says “has been racked by a separatist conflict for the last three years”. The question, after Russia’s invasion and annexation of another country’s territory, is frankly astounding. The response from European leaders was rather better, possibly because they have every reason to understand how little the events in eastern Ukraine resemble a ‘separatist conflict’. All of Russia’s neighbours, including the 3 Baltic States who are members of NATO, are acutely aware that Russia will not stop if it is not forced to.
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An excavator digs a hole by portraits of four missing Slovyansk residents, to exhume four bodies at a mass grave in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk on July 24, 2014.
