US Senator: Standoff in Eastern Ukraine To Be Settled 'Within Another Week' -- Defense News
WASHINGTON — A tense standoff between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists will be over within a week — and will decide whether “all-out war” begins in Eastern Europe, says a US senator.
Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, the No. 3 Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, leaves for a trip to Ukraine later this week, where he will huddle with leaders of that nation and “representatives” for the top US general in Europe.
Nelson told reporters via a conference call that with Moscow-backed separatists occupying several eastern Ukrainian cities, including Donetsk, “I expect within the matter of another week, this is going to be decided one way or another.
“Either Russia comes across the border or the Ukraine military will have prevailed,” Nelson said.
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My Comment: My original prediction on this conflict still holds. The Ukraine military will storm the remaining rebel strongholds and they will be successful in seizing this territory. But the rebels will either then be in the countryside and/or they will join that part of the urban population that is supporting their cause. The end result will be the same .... a guerrilla/asymmetric state of war that is going to drain Ukraine for as long as a a political compromise and agreement is avoided.
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