Ukraine: a cold peace?

The relationship will stay very cool, because Russian popular opinion would never allow Putin to hand back Crimea.

After the Dec. 9 first encounter in Paris between Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, pictured, there were the inevitable accusations that Putin had taken the inexperienced Zelenskiy to the cleaners.Photograph courtesy of Flickr

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

December 16, 2019

LONDON, U.K.—After the Dec. 9 first encounter between Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in Paris, there were the inevitable accusations that Putin had taken the inexperienced Zelenskiy to the cleaners. After all, what chance did an ex-television come...

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