Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Anna Borshchevskaya: The West cannot abandon Ukraine now
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and France's President Francois Hollande arrive at the presidential residence in Minsk on Feb. 11, 2015.
After over 17 hours of exhaustive negotiations on the Ukrainian crisis in Minsk, Belarus between Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, France's President François Hollande, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the four leaders announced a cease-fire. Yet no celebration followed. As The Wall Street Journal wrote, upon the meeting's conclusion, "[t]here were no declarations of peace in our time, no backslapping or self-congratulation when the exhausted French and German leaders arrived in Brussels later that day for a European Union summit." The cease-fire may be better than nothing, but even if it holds, no one had any illusions about its limitations.
