Nolan Peterson, Daily Signal: ‘A Real War Going On': Mixed News From the Front Lines in Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine—The two-year-old Ukraine war has hit a grim milestone amid the longest and most durable lull in fighting since the conflict began.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko last week said 2,269 Ukrainian soldiers have died since the conflict in eastern Ukraine began in spring 2014.
That toll almost matches the 2,381 American troops killed during roughly 14 years of combat operations in Afghanistan.
“Ukraine’s KIA [killed in action] rate in such a short amount of time shows how serious the situation is in the country,” Luke Coffey, director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation and a U.S. Army veteran, said.
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WNU Editor: All my friends, family members, and associates in Ukraine are telling me the same thing about the conflict in their country .... a ceasefire exists in name only. IEDs, snipers, the odd artillery exchange .... that is now the norm on the front. As for the rest of Ukraine .... high unemployment, inflation, monstrous debt, corruption, a collapse of social/government services, etc., etc., etc. .... the war is just one mess on top of many. As for the politicians who run the country starting with President Poroshenko .... 6 months ago their polls numbers were in the toilet .... Polls: Ukrainian Public Dissatisfied With Current Conditions. Ukraine Government And Ukraine President Poroshenko Deeply Unpopular .... if another poll was done today .... trust me on this one .... these numbers would be far worse.