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What did 10 May 2018 look like from Kyiv?
Summary
A look back at two reports from the days before 10 May 2018: a mass poisoning in Cherkasy and a US Navy fleet revived amid NATO-Russia tensions.
What was the picture in Ukraine and the wider region on 10 May 2018? Two reports from the preceding days, one local and one international, framed it.
Poisoning in Cherkasy
As reported on 8 May 2018, a mass poisoning in Cherkasy had affected more than 90 people. Most of those affected were children from a single school. The reports available from that period gave the scale of the incident and the group worst hit.
A fleet returns
Further afield, on 4 May 2018 the United States Navy re-established its Second Fleet, which had been disbanded in 2011. The move was attributed to recently heightened tensions between NATO and Russia.
Later writers, including scholars and journalists, used terms such as Second Cold War, Cold War II and New Cold War for heightened 21st-century tensions between the United States and NATO on one side and Russia or China on the other. Some commentators used those terms as a comparison with the original Cold War, while others discouraged applying them to ongoing tensions.
Two stories, one date
The two reports concerned very different matters: a public-health emergency affecting schoolchildren in a Ukrainian city, and a naval command restored because of strained relations between NATO and Russia. Seen from 10 May 2018, both were recent news.
