our 'free and democratic' mass media, of course, is either not reporting at all, or misinforming - as usual - on the latest deescalation in ukraine.
the events imo point to putin again playing his game brilliantly and gradually achieving his aims...
to begin with, it was scary when his troops 2 days ago were ordered to begin exersizes on ukraine's border to only end up by today's official announcement of the supreme council canceling putin's right to use military force.
before that, also yesterday and frankly to my big surprise, the gazprom officially announced that ukraine is fulfilling its transit contracts to europe and NOT stealing russian gas as in previous conflicts despite being cut off since the last monday.
also yesterday, rather quietly, the new ukrainian president's representatives despite swearing to 'exterminate' them, met with the very rebels they call terrorists. they agreed on a seize fire under the russian and obse mediation. this was the real icebreaker.
another silent yet significant change from the previous dead end is that putin and the new uki pres are in regular personal contact. the poroshenko guy even immediately replaced the foreign minister who insulted putin and promissed to consults russia on the eu association progress.
these are all hard facts and events that took place within days of harsh uncompromising rhetoric from the ukrainians...
is vlad feigning a retreat to dodge more sanctions or simply winning