Whether the end is war or detente, today's suspense can surely not be sustained for long
, Ukraine’s capital, is carrying on as normal. In both cities young crowds still roam in search of the latest cool bars. In Red Square children are skating on an illuminated ice-rink to the tune of “Jingle Bells”. At the weekend Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s actor-turned-president, told journalists arriving in anticipation of a war, that there was “too much information in the information space”.
In the past few years the Kremlin has issued hundreds of thousands of passports to Russian-speakers in two Russian-controlled areas, Donetsk and Luhansk. It has also been trying to oblige Ukraine to give the region a high degree of autonomy, a move that would give itself significant leverage over the whole country. Ukraine understands the dangers well and resisted this move, trying to play for time.
An indication of a possible way to defuse the situation without war is the news that Russia’s parliament is shortly expected to vote on a proposal, tabled by a group of loyal deputies, to appeal to Mr Putin to recognise the two self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. “This is a very serious and crucial question. We're talking about protecting the lives of our citizens and compatriots,” Vyacheslav Volodin, a powerful speaker of the Duma, said in a statement on February 11th.
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