THE INTERPRETER: New spate of drafting to Ukrainian Armed Forces fraught with full-scale war in Europe : Russia won’t be able to watch the plight of citizens of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics placidly because the Russians never let their relatives or friends down,” Dr. Nikonov said. “Once in the past, the US lost the Vietnam war because Russia — then the Soviet Union — gave aid to the brotherly Vietnamese people and that’s a lesson not to be forgotten.”