Published on 24th April 2014
The rhetoric between Kiev and Moscow has taken a distinct turn for the worse. On Wednesday Russia warned that any attack on its citizens in Ukraine would be considered as an attack on itself. That came as an ‘anti-terrorist’ operation against pro-Russian militants in the eastern part of the country was restarted. Should the agreement reached last week to de-escalate the situation collapse then a race between Washington and Moscow to fix the blame on the other side could ensue and also set of new rounds of tit-for-tat measures, The Wall Street Journal Europe writes.