No one should believe that the Minsk Protocol – agreed in September by representatives of Ukraine, Russia, and the Kremlin-backed armed militants in the eastern cities of Donetsk and Luhansk – marked the beginning of a return to normalcy in either Ukraine or Europe. Under that agreement, Ukraine’s government ceded de facto control of the Donbas region, supposedly for only three years, to Russia’s hired secessionists.
千万不要相信乌克兰、俄罗斯和克里姆林支持的东部城市顿涅茨克和卢甘斯克的武装分子代表9月达成的 明斯克协议标志着乌克兰或者欧洲恢复正常的开始。虽然协议条款规定以三年为限，但乌克兰政府实际放弃了对顿巴斯地区的控制权，并将该地区交给由俄罗斯雇佣的分离主义分子。但这场境外输入的混合战争&mdash;&mdash;还有俄罗斯对乌克兰的瓜分&mdash;&mdash;却还远远没有结束。