From anti-maidan to war: timeline of events, March-April 2014

Part II

Generally the western story of when the war started in Donbass focuses on Igor Strelkov. It doesn’t help that he himself supported this interpretation, famously claiming that ‘it was I who pulled the trigger of war’. But is it not natural for a military adventurist to overplay his own individual significance? In fact, many more actors were involved. The…