KYIV, Ukraine—Over the weekend, as NATO leaders in Warsaw, Poland, were discussing ways to counter Russian aggression, the conflict in eastern Ukraine concurrently spiked to its worst level in months.
“I don’t think it’s a coincidence,” Stephen Blank, senior fellow for Russia at the American Foreign Policy Council, told The Daily Signal. “It makes sense that it would be related to the Warsaw summit.”
According to Kyiv, three Ukrainian soldiers died and 16 were wounded on Saturday, July 9. And on Sunday, one Ukrainian soldier died and 10 were wounded.
During Sunday’s fighting, Ukrainian military officials said combined Russian-separatist forces shelled various Ukrainian positions in the Donetsk region with 152 mm, 120 mm, and 80 mm mortars as well as 122 mm self-propelled artillery.
