this initiative puts an end to the diplomatic sequence opened eight years ago by the Minsk agreements.

First a long speech, two decades of resentment and grievances concentrated in a televised address full of cold anger and thinly veiled threats addressed to the West and to Ukraine.

A few hours later, late last night, the first armored columns entered the Donbass.

Vladimir Putin puts an end to hope for a peaceful and political settlement of the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Le Monde

The ground had been prepared with the distribution, in recent years, of Russian passports to several hundred thousand inhabitants of Donbass.

This method has already been used in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, except that the case of Donbass presents a major difference: the borders of the two separatist republics are not clearly defined. 

 central character of the last chance talks

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The Head of State alone symbolizes the emotional and diplomatic lift in which Vladimir Putin has locked up his interlocutors for weeks.

The ridge path that France claimed to continue to take in order to preserve a chance for peace suddenly hit a dead end.

Because in the eyes of many experts,

Liberation

this Russian decision to recognize the independence of two Ukrainian territories is the first step in an escalation to come.

This will be followed by the call to defend the entities in question, followed by the attempt to take control of the entire Donetsk and Lugansk regions, which would lead to a major war with Ukraine.

is taking place in broad daylight, in a global media battle.

To the Russian doctrine of hybrid warfare, the Americans oppose a new method of counter-information.

Since the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis, the American president or his administration has regularly made public, sometimes almost in real time, classified information on the next Russian movements, in order to anticipate them.

 that part of the information disclosed by the Americans is of another nature.

The disinformation operations denounced in advance by Washington are covert operations.

They come from sources in the Russian intelligence services, perhaps even directly from the Kremlin.

But this story is mind-blowing!

Of course he was my parliamentary assistant

several testimonies support the idea that Fabien Roussel actually worked for his party, since he had become federal secretary of the PCF in the North in 2010. He was paid between 2400 and 2700 euros per month as an assistant .

But was it full time

himself indicted in the affair of the fictitious assistants of the Modem in the European Parliament.