Ukraine crisis: EU and US need a more joined-up approach

Stefan Wolff and Tatyana Malyarenko propose a three-point plan to deal with Russian intransigence

Pro-Russian activists barricade administrative buildings in Slaviansk
(Image credit: GENYA SAVILOV/AFP/Getty Images)

THE Geneva Agreement appears to be dead in the water. Achieved only a week ago, it was widely considered a surprising breakthrough, albeit one which offered major concessions to Russia.

One week on, however, it seems as if very little happened in terms of actual implementation. Daily updates from the OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, on the one hand, attest to the continuation of the status quo with protesters continuing to occupy buildings in about a dozen urban centres in eastern Ukraine and refusing to disarm – two key points of the Geneva Agreement.

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