DONETSK – Rebel fighter Roman smirks when asked about the two-year-old peace deal that was supposed to end what is now a 33-month war between government forces and separatists in Ukraine’s east.
The camouflage-clad gunman in Europe’s only armed conflict – the bloodiest since the 1990s Balkans crises – simply warms his trigger finger by a stove in a barracks on the frontline of the Russian-backed separatists’ de facto capital Donetsk.
