The West needs a new strategy in the situation with Ukraine, write richard Haass and Charles Kupchan. "The best way forward is a consistent...

a strategy aimed at first strengthening Ukraine's military potential, and then, when the fighting season ends at the end of this year, to bring Moscow and Kiev from the battlefield to the negotiating table," they say. At the same time, the authors note that it will be difficult to convince Kiev to agree to a ceasefire and move to diplomacy.