Russia’s renewed military offensive in eastern Ukraine provides the latest evidence that the Kremlin violates the Minsk II peace agreement at will. At least 27 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in two weeks. Russia is behaving belligerently in other ways, too. The prospects of a third peace deal are dim after the first two versions failed spectacularly in a war that has taken nearly 7,000 lives in 15 months.The Minsk II peace agreement reached in February, in critical condition from the start, may have taken its dying breath on June 3. Russian-separatist forces launched a renewed assault on the western Donetsk suburb of Maryinka, discarding hopes for a durable peace in eastern Ukraine.

World leaders condemned Russia for what Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk described as the Kremlin “ordering its terrorists” to wage new attacks on Ukrainian forces.