(FIIA Comment) Moscow's geopolitical objectives have not been met. The emergence of a breakaway entity, which encompasses only part of the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, cannot be equated with a split of Ukraine. This is a far cry from a powerful Novorossiya, stretching from Kharkiv to Odessa and bolstering the claim, made at the highest political echelons in Russia, that Ukraine is 'an artificial state'. […]
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