"The war in Ukraine, we are often told, is a "civil war" involving "rebels" fighting the central government in Kyiv. Such restrictive, inaccurate terms greatly misrepresent the conflict..." Ukraine Today reports.

The crisis is represented too often as entirely internal to Ukraine, the authors say.

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