Translated "Avante!" article by Luís Carapinha, Member of the International Department

The Donbass dormant war situation is worsening. The fights, that have killed many civilians since the end of January last, are considered as the most violent and intense since the last 12 months and coincide with Trump’s taking over office, in the USA. BBC images captured Ukrainian tanks in Avdeevka city, in north Donetsk outskirts, a crass violation of the Minsk Agreements (II). And whilst the towns and villages of the Donetsk and Lugansk self-proclaimed popular republics bombardments are hindered and carry on the frizzing of retirement pensions’ payment along with the social transfers unto the occupied “zones”, in a war, launched against the people itself, Kiev has rehearsed a catastrophe scenario and humanitarian evacuation in Avdeevka, so-called the Ukraine “Aleppo”. A propaganda and misinformation parallel war that proceeds in its finest style.

Considering the destruction level and more than nine thousand casualties, since the “anti-terrorist operation” begun , upon the state coup, in 2014, the military conflict in Ukraine configures, currently, an exhaustion war, with no significant alterations in the frontline. The proto-fascist power, installed in Kiev by the USA and the EU, does not intend to accomplish the stipulated in Minsk – namely the taking place of the constitutional reforms and the consecration of the special status of the Donbass region, before the reestablishment boarder total control with Russia. Although the Ukrainian generals claim glorious advances of hundreds of metres in the battle front, Kiev is aware that a military solution for the conflict is not, for the moment, at their reach. Nevertheless, the repeated crimes and disorders, Porochenko and the Ukraine oligarchy dictatorship power, carry on holding an imputable statute under the USA, EU and NATO’s eyes. Independently of the nexus between the Kremlin and Trump, along with other of his administration characters, of a non – despising glitter of class instincts amid the strategy re -dimension network at a time of capitalist structural crisis deepening, a reality that carries on over-weighting Ukraine, and the war, in particular, becoming an instrument and a geo-political assessment advancing within the aggressive path of imperialism. An alibi of excellence for imperialism cavalcade towards the East “vital space”, the reinforcement of NATO’s expansionism and aggressiveness, together with the maintenance of the political, economic and military pressure over Russia. Internally, it ought to carry on with the state of war and social psychosis as an irreplaceable instrument of internal legitimacy of the Kiev Junta anti-democratic power, along with the liberal regime / national fascist. To continue to impose the unsupportable socioeconomic situation confronted by the majority of Ukrainians, proceeding the national resources dilapidation and the anti-social reforms, at the service of the oligarchy and the great capital that caused the economic bankruptcy and loss of Ukraine’s sovereignty. To carry ahead the atrocious wave of neo-Nazi glorification and “ de-communization”, accompanied by the implacable persecution, moved against the communists and political freedoms and rights.

The wide spectrum of war in Europe remains a disturbing reality, at the moment one assists to a never seen operation, for many decades, the landing of NATO forces, in a vast perimeter, from the Baltic to the Black Sea, along the Russian boarders. It is necessary to confront the causes that are in the genesis of the Ukraine conflict and imperialism bellicose policy that threatens the planet. And also cutting through the permanent-lie veil and its “post-truth” beatification, of the decadent dominant order.