As he told American former boxing champion Roy Jones, Jr. “We are already getting such signals from the Americans,” Lavrov said, “though for now not very clear.” Would Russia be open to better relations? Russia, responded the foreign minister, would “consider constructively” any such possibility. But, if Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is to be believed, there are a number of senior officials who have also been sending signals to Russia suggesting that President Obama wants to turn a page and improve his frosty relations with President Vladimir Putin. They are understandably absorbed with selling the Iran nuclear deal to a reluctant Congress. Ukraine is no longer the top priority for American diplomats. They are always available to be manipulated as a pro-Russian weapon in the East-West battle for Ukraine’s future. The twin rebel “republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk have slowly frozen into a Russian stronghold, effectively detached from the rest of Ukraine. The point is that the war stumbles along with no end in sight. Who fired first is no longer a relevant question.
Although leaders such as Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko still search for an acceptable formula to end the war, it has continued in the southeast corner of Ukraine, with casualties mounting.
For many weeks now, the war in the Donbas has slipped off the front page. A deceptive late-summer pause has settled over the Ukraine crisis.
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