India, Feb. 11 -- Volodymyr Zelenskyy won the Ukrainian Presidential elections on a platform of peace. Donetsk, Crimea and Lugansk had separated from the rest of Ukraine in 2014. It was expected that the new government taking over in Kiev would understand that attempting to roll back the influence within the Russian-speaking eastern provinces of a country that comprises half the land area of Eurasia was a thankless task. Instead, persuaded by key policymakers in the United States and in the European Union, he adopted a policy of seeking to get back control of lands that had been independent of the Ukrainian government in Kiev through military force since the Maidan Coup-sorry, Maidan Revolution-of 2014 that substituted a central government ...