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Ukraine, Russia and the Deep Freeze War. Blurb: Possibly the most bizarre story to appear in the news this week was the faked assassination of a Russian dissident journalist Arkady Babchenko in Kiev on Tuesday. Beyond its outlandishness, the incident highlighted how relations between Russia and Ukraine remain in the deep freeze following the former's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the seizure of parts of eastern Ukraine by pro-Russian forces. But with tensions still threatening to escalate between the two countries, what is the situation in this 'frozen war'?
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