The sadness of Sloviansk

How lies bring wars

The saying goes that truth is a casualty of war.  That is so. Thus when Russia attacked the railway station in Kramatorsk, killing fifty civilians, Moscow first boasted about and then denied the strike. But sometimes it is the lies that bring about the war in the first place.

So it is with the city of Sloviansk, Kramatorsk’s neighbor in the Donbas. E…