Experts say that former President Poroshenko was held captive by his own rhetoric.
Ukraine's new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been in power for less than two months, and already he is taking steps to fulfill one of his most ambitious campaign promises: to resolve the intractable conflict with Russia in the country's east.
In late June, Ukrainian troops abandoned their position along the so-called contact line that separates the Donbas, the part of Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian separatists, from the rest of Ukraine. The country's military withdrew around 500 meters from the line of contact, an unprecedented move in a longstanding conflict marked daily skirmishes and ceasefire violations.
"Zelenskiy has to show that he is doing something," one European diplomat in Ukraine's capital Kiev toldFive years since the conflict broke out, over 60 percent of Ukrainians say that the ongoing conflict in the country's east is of paramount importance. Around 13,000 people have died since the conflict broke out in 2014. But concrete solutions to the longstanding conflict have been illusive.
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