Just days after teetering on the edge of civil war amid violent clashes between opposition forces and security services loyal to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, the country’s capital of Kiev began to regain some semblance of normalcy this week.
The calm didn’t last. By Sunday, with Russian forces moving to seize control of the Crimean peninsula in the face of President Obama’s warning that military intervention would have consequences, Ukraine was mobilizing its own troops and the country’s prime minister was declaring Ukraine on the “brink of disaster.”
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