Huge casualties due to fighting in the East of Ukraine indicate that between Ukraine and Russia is a full-scale war, and not a small rebellion or terrorist campaign.

According to the Censor.NET with reference to ZN.UA about it writes researcher of the Centre for political and regional studies, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian studies University of Alberta Taras Kuzio in his article published by The Financial Times.

He complains that President Barack Obama does not dare to utter the word "invasion" and asked his advisers, why Ukraine is so important. In turn, Russia denies that brought troops to the East of Ukraine, and Ukraine itself describes its military actions as an anti-terrorist operation.

"Actually, Europe is witnessing a war, which leads to losses for the Russian army in such dimensions, which not seen since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. It is time to recognize it," says Cusio.

Russian human rights activist, founder of the group "Cargo-200" in Facebook Elena Vasilieva, based on information received from Russian families information, argues that in Ukraine were killed and four thousand Russian soldiers.

Evaluation Vasilyeva were supported and other data, in particular data of the Committee of soldiers ' mothers.

In just five months of fighting Russia has lost the same number of soldiers as the USA for 12 years in Iraq. This number is also commensurable with the third loss of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the nine-year occupation. "These rates are very high losses reflect a full-scale war between Ukraine and Russia, and not a small rebellion or terrorist campaign," the article says.

Britain lost 600 soldiers and police in Ulster in the next three decades, "Irish troubles".

Hundreds of militants and civilians continue to die in the East of Ukraine. In mid-November, Russian missile battalion was destroyed Ukrainian forces claimed to have killed 150 of the Russian military and the General Sergei Andreichenko.

The resignation of the head of the Pentagon, Chuck Hagel due to the weak U.S. policy toward Russia foretells that controlled by Republicans Congress, as in the 1980-ies with Afghanistan, will support a retaliatory strike on Russia, providing weapons to allies of the United States. Senator John McCain is more like Congressman Charlie Wilson in the 1980's, when the United States organized covert aid to the Afghan Mujahideen.

The author emphasizes that there are two subtleties in the background of the fact that Russia denies its invasion in the East of Ukraine, which is more reminiscent of Soviet deception.

First, when former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at the last stages of the war in Afghanistan was more media freedom than in Putin's Russia.

Secondly, the Russian President Vladimir Putin is not able to close all channels and hide information about the Russian losses available on the Internet. "Ukraine publishes the free information in the Russian language in the world, and these publications are available online, at least for those who have access to the Internet," writes Cusio.

Putin "lame" in achieving its objectives in Eastern and southern Ukraine, according to the determination of Ukrainian patriots defend their territory, and the growing opposition to the war in Russia.

The author recalls that in the USSR and modern Russia soldiers inflicted himself with horrible injuries, just to avoid sending then in Afghanistan and now in Donbass.

"It is time to recognize the conflict in the Donbas, which led to thousands of casualties, widespread destruction and drew in displaced more than a million people, as the first interstate war in Europe after 1945" - summarizes the author.

The American edition of the Wall Street Journal wrote that Obama will not be able to interfere with the territorial ambitions of Putin . "Obama's presidency has long been at odds with the obvious. Previously, it was called "hope", and now all recognize the farce," the article says the American edition.

Source: http://censor.net.ua/