Ian Proud
This is just a smokescreen for the economic cliff edge that Ukraine is hurtling towards
I've been hearing since 2014 about the imminent implosion of Russia's economy, but this has never looked likely to happen.
In a remarkable recent article in the UK's Telegraph newspaper, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard takes a scatter gun approach to western Ukraine policy, claiming that the 'balance of advantage is shifting in favour of Ukraine,' on the basis that Russia may soon go into economic meltdown.