The Aug. 9 editorial "An untenable position" recommended Kyiv continue isolating the rebel-controlled provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk in Ukraine. The area is home to 3 million people, or, more specifically, 3 million Ukrainian citizens. The United Nations classified 1.4 million of them as "highly vulnerable and in need of assistance." The majority of those left inside the blockade are the old, the infirm and the financially destitute — the ones who can't leave.
Washington Post: Eastern Ukraine needs help, not isolation
A picture taken on June 9, 2015 shows a woman and her children, Ukrainian refugees, playing on swings at a refugee camp on the shore of the Azov Sea in Russia's Rostov region.
