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Analysis: Russian-US diplomacy stalls, with a shelled Ukrainian kindergarten a stark reminder of the lives at stake
On any other week, the high-level diplomatic drama that unfolded in Moscow on Thursday should have been the main headline. But the images of a shelled kindergarten in eastern Ukraine shifted international focus to the Donbas region, where the world braced itself for signs that the simmering conflict there might escalate very seriously and catastrophically.