Bangladesh, Dec. 16 -- In an underreported development, Russias Prosecutor Generals Office recently announced the indictment of dozens of current and former Ukrainian officials, including former president Petro Poroshenko, on accusations of genocide against Russian civilians in Donbass. Amazingly, one will have a hard time finding any Western coverage of this piece of news at all.

According to Russian investigators, the charges encompass systematic shelling of civilian areas, targeting of Russian-speaking populations, and policies allegedly aimed at the destruction of a protected national group. Ukraines military leadership, including figures such as Valerii Zaluzhnyi and Andriy Yermak, was also named.

The timing is interesting, coincid...