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Donbas: Seven Years On, Peace No More in Sight

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Dr Anna Matveeva is an international consultant in conflict and peace issues and has published widely as an academic and policy analyst on politics and security in the post-Soviet states and in Syria. She is the author of Through Times of Trouble: Conflict in Southeastern Ukraine Explained from Within (Lexington Books, 2018), and academic articles, such as ‘Russia’s power projection after the Ukraine crisis,’ (Europe–Asia Studies, 2018) and ‘No Moscow stooges: identity polarization and guerrilla movements in Donbass,’ (Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2016), as well as media and policy publications.

IFS Insights 2/2022 

  • The insurgency in Donbas has consolidated both politically and militarily while drifting closer to Russia.
     
  • The Russian leadership believes that a conflict settlement based on the Minsk Agreements is unlikely to happen soon, and changes its approach towards greater engagement in, and integration of, the territories.

     
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