Anna Nemtsova writes for Newsweek and its online avatar The Daily Beast. Here she reports from Eastern Ukraine where she's been covering the war from the rebel side, dodging bullets and bombs, talking her way through checkpoints.
Nemtsova provides no great geopolitical insights but a lot of telling detail about the ugliness that is civil war. Pretty clearly the brains come from Moscow and the rebel blood spilled is mostly Russian-speaking Ukrainians.
The people in Eastern Ukraine view Kiev (Kyiv) as run by fascists. What they mean by "fascist" is people who identify more with German-speaking Europe than with Mother Russia.
Nemtsova doesn't say so but the wounds of what the Soviet Union called The Great Patriotic War (World War II) run deep, and haven't healed. War in the Donbass region is the cold war turned hot, and it will spread.
