Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to cease his assault on Ukraine until he will get what he needs.
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Together with his invasion of Ukraine going badly, Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin is pretending to supply peace in alternate for half the nation. Now, that's: He’d clearly come for the remaining later.
If he can’t get that give up, he’ll simply carry on slaughtering as many Ukrainians as he can, regardless of his fevered declare that they’re all truly Russians. The one place he’ll allow them to flee is to areas he controls.
At peace negotiations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov mentioned the struggle will proceed till Ukraine acknowledges “that Crimea is Russian territory and that they should acknowledge that Donetsk and Luhansk are impartial states.” Russia additionally calls for that Ukraine write into its Structure a everlasting ban on becoming a member of NATO, the European Union or anything that will assist defend its independence of Moscow.
Peskov additionally supplied the macabre vow that when Ukraine stops its “navy motion . . . nobody will shoot.” We’re solely killing you since you insist on defending yourselves.
In the meantime, Putin’s Protection Ministry claims it's going to supply secure evacuation routes from Ukraine — that led solely to Russia or its puppet Belarus. This, after the Russians shelled different evacuation routes it had mentioned could be secure.
In brief, Putin affords Ukraine nothing however conquest and compelled assimilation.
No marvel greater than 1.7 million Ukrainians have fled their nation — together with the 11-year-old boy who made it over the Slovakian border alone, touring 600 miles after his widowed mom despatched him away to flee Russian assaults on Zaporizhzhia. The flight will attain 5 million if the struggle drags on, and certain tens of millions extra if Putin truly conquers the nation.
If the West continues to fulfill Putin’s aggression with inadequate resolve, numerous tragedies are forward.
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