Ukraine back in the headlines again

The Putin regime condemned the episode as "fake news," and will have much more credibility the next time it needs to deny killing a critic, writes columnist Gwynne Dyer.

Ukrainian journalist and Kremlin critic Arkady Babchenko faked his own death last week in an apparent attempt to trap a Russian operative said to be plotting his murder.

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 5, 2018

LONDON, U.K.– Four years into a stalemated war, it takes something very big or very bizarre to get Ukraine back into the headlines. Even the news in April that the U.S. has started delivering lethal weapons (Javelin anti-tank missiles) to Ukraine didn’t do the trick, but the non-assassination of...

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