Russia's Ukrainian Retreat : NewsweekRussian-speaking Dnipropetrovsk has supplied two of the fiercest volunteer battalions to the front line, Dnipro-1 and Dnipro-2, financed by two oligarchs who are prominent members of the local Jewish community. "Ukraine's population is only 17 percent ethnically Russian," says Steven Pifer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. "Putin always mangled th
