title: Het 'frozen conflict' in Oekraïne: een balans
abstract: As unsuspected as the Ukrainian crisis broke out in 2014 and escalated to the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula, the conflict in the Eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, MH-17 and mutual sanctions, it seemed asof the crisis had stabilized in 2016. On the frontline between the two Russian-backed 'people's republics' of Donetsk and Luhansk there is still some occasional fighting, but large scale military operations are no longer a daily occurence. At the same time, in august 2016, the