By James Miller, Pierre Vaux,
Catherine A. Fitzpatrick,
and Michael Weiss
"With the significant exception of the Russian
government, few deny that Moscow is financially
and militarily backing the “separatist”
war in east Ukraine and has in fact invaded its neighbor.
This report aims to offer a thorough forensic
accounting of Russia’s dirty war in the Donbass in two
ways: first, by surveying the evidence of advanced
weapons systems on the battlefield that can only have
come from Russia; and second, by examining all
available evidence on Russian military casualties and
fatalities suffered in Ukraine.
Based on the analysis contained here, it is the view
of the present writers that, were it not for the heavy
injection of Russian weapons and Russian soldiers into
east Ukraine, the separatists would have been militarily
defeated by Ukraine’s “Anti-Terrorist Operation”
(ATO) launched toward the close of summer 2014.
Instead, Russian materiel and manpower have kept
the conflict simmering, with occasional boil-overs, for
more than a year with the purpose of steadily expanding
the borders of the self-declared “Donetsk and Lugansk
People’s Republics,” in flagrant violation of the both the
Minsk Protocol cease-fire agreement signed in September
2014 and the so-called “Minsk II” agreement signed
in February 2015."
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