As winter approaches, the temperature has gotten exponentially hotter on the Crimean Peninsula and Ukraine’s border with Russia.
It is as if both Moscow and Kyiv can see the writing on the wall, that a final solution is about to be imposed to the smoldering contest for dominance in Ukraine’s Donbass region. Although there is no hot war in Crimea, twice in the last several months, Russia has expressed outrage at alleged actions by Ukrainian “special forces” troops inside Crimea, which is now firmly under Russian control. The supposed terrorist sabotage has been accompanied by claims of abductions of Russian nationals.
