Opinion: Russia playing with fire in Ukraine

Russia’s violent seizure of three Ukrainian naval vessels sailing to Ukrainian ports on the Sea of Azov is but the latest instance of the Kremlin’s brazen aggression directed toward its neighbour and former colony.
The rote denials and false claims accompanying the attack can be regarded as having the same credibility as Russia’s insistence that it was not a Russian missile that shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH 17 over Ukrainian territory; that Russian intelligence op