Donbas war: Volnovaha tragedy, new wave of mobilization

Макроэкономика 14.01.2015 At a Ukrainian military checkpoint near the town of Volnovaha in Donetsk oblast, pro-Kremlin militants fired rockets at a passenger bus, killing eleven civilians and seriously wounding eighteen others. In response to this tragic event, President Poroshenko addressed the nation and vowed to lobby the EU to respond to the so-called DNR and LNR, respectively, the Donetsk and Luhansk self-proclaimed "peoples' republics". Poroshenko also announced his commitment to sign an executive order authorizing the next wave of military mobilization. Although this move has been long prepared, it is not connected to the incident in Volnovaha. After the recent sharp rise of offensive attacks by pro-Kremlin militants and the Russian army, a peace agreement is not only presently ignored but could be hardly possible any time soon.