August 26, 2015 -- New Cold War.org, posted by Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Stephen F. Cohen, contributing editor to The Nation, was interviewed on the the John Batchelor Show, WABC radio in New York City. They discuss the news of a ceasefire agreement in eastern Ukraine for a cessation of hostilities beginning September 1, 2015, and the recent meeting in Berlin on August 24 of Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, France's President François Hollande and Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko.

According to Cohen, by summoning President Petro Poroshenko to Berlin, Merkel and Hollande made clear that the US-backed government in Kiev, not Moscow, is blocking implementation of the Minsk plan for negotiating an end to the Ukrainian civil war.