Ukraine watches nervously as world powers wrestle over its future : Analysis

KIEV,UKraine: For all its moral outrage and vows never to be partitioned, this country has become almost a bystander to the struggle over its future.

With Russian forces looming over a disputed vote on secession in Crimea, it’s increasingly clear that what happens to Ukraine will be decided not here in its capital, Kiev, but in Moscow, Washington and Brussels, the real power brokers in Europe’s worst geopolitical crisis this century.