Ukraine war latest news today updated, Negotiations in the Ukraine War: Kyiv Ready for talks on Crimea
After Russia, Ukraine is the largest country in Europe in terms of area, with a population of 44 million. Since the Declaration of Independence in December 1991, the presidential republic has faced the greatest challenges in its recent history. Developments in Ukraine have already aroused international concern in recent years and led to a low point in Russian-Western relations. In the spring of 2021, the conflict over Ukraine that began in 2013/2014 flared up again. Russia had begun a massive troop deployment on the border with Ukraine. By February 2022, Russia had successively massed around 150,000 soldiers on the borders around Ukraine, almost all of whom moved into Ukraine during the course of the war.
By the end of 2021, Ukraine and the West had feared that Russia could plan an invasion and invade the neighboring country. Russia has always denied such a plan and has demanded security guarantees from NATO and the USA, a reduction in the military presence on NATO's eastern flank, and, above all, a halt to NATO's eastward expansion.
For years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the Western alliance of expanding ever further toward Russia.
He now demanded written guarantees from NATO that no further Eastern European states such as Ukraine or Georgia would be admitted to NATO in the future. And Putin went a step further in his demands: As far as the geographic reach of NATO is concerned, it should be brought back to the 1997 level.
This would rule out the stationing of NATO units on the territory of the former Warsaw Pact, the former Yugoslavia, the Baltic states, the Visegrad states as well as Romania and Bulgaria. The USA and NATO rejected these demands as largely unacceptable.
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However, Russia's concern is not just about expanding its influence on security policy in Eastern Europe. Putin wants to re-establish Russia as a great power, on an equal footing with the US and China, or in partnership with China against the West.
According to his ideas, the balance of power should be rearranged, with Russia playing a role as a world power again in this new structure. Historically speaking, Putin would like to re-establish an internationally influential state entity made up of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, based on the former territory of “Kyiv Rus”.
In order to achieve this reunification, in order to restore, expand and secure his Russian empire, he will obviously use any means at his disposal. Putin's fight is also less about new territorial claims per se.
Rather, he is fighting against a strengthening of democracy in Ukraine, against the free-democratic system of values in the West as a whole, which Russia sees as a threat to the authoritarian regime in Moscow in the form of Ukraine.
"He's at war with us. He sees Ukraine as a proxy war between the West and Russia," says Markus Kaim from the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik.
The West's diplomatic efforts had been in full swing for months. In a marathon of negotiations, heads of state from many countries tried to prevent a further escalation and a renewed outbreak of war.
The Western community of states had warned Russia several times against violating the borders and threatened severe sanctions. In order to resolve the deadlocked conflict, Germany and France pinned their hopes on the so-called "Normandy Format", which envisages negotiations between the four states of Russia, Ukraine, France, and Germany.
The heads of state of Russia and Ukraine had also initially shown a willingness to tackle the implementation of the agreements of the Minsk Agreement as part of the Normandy format.
However, the efforts are at a "dead end" after a large number of talks, stated Russia's President Putin. After fighting resumed in Donbas, Putin recognized the self-proclaimed “People's Republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states and signed treaties of friendship with them.
On February 24, 2022, Putin launched a war of aggression against Ukraine in violation of international law in order to supposedly protect the Russian citizens who he believed were threatened.
In his speech shortly before the invasion, Putin justified the attack by saying that he was defending those who were being mistreated and murdered by the Kyiv regime.
The Russian army will strive for a "denazification" of the Ukrainian territories and fight against the "genocide", against the genocide of Russians.
The international community is appalled by the war of aggression against a sovereign country, condemns Putin's actions and the blatant violation of international law in the strongest possible terms, and has decided on tough sanctions against Russia.
As for the scope of the current conflict, it extends far beyond the issue of Ukraine. The current conflict is primarily about Ukraine, but ultimately it is about reorganizing Europe, if not the world.
According to Markus Kaim, the Russian government is again fundamentally questioning the beginnings of the European security and peace order that has been in place since 1990. This shows the seriousness of the situation.
A war in Ukraine could, under certain circumstances, also result in an extension to NATO countries. Direct military support for Ukraine by NATO is still considered impossible. Since Ukraine is not a member of the NATO alliance, it cannot request assistance under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
In addition, however, the danger must not be ignored that NATO could be drawn into the war without direct military intervention. With its actions supporting Ukraine, NATO could sooner or later become a war party.
This would be a dangerous development if one recalls Putin's speech, in which he clearly warned: "Whoever tries to hinder us, let alone create a threat to our country and our people, must know that Russia's response will be immediate and will lead to consequences that you have never experienced in your history."
For this reason, NATO and the USA have not responded to Ukraine's demands for a no-fly zone over Ukraine and are weighing the nature of the deliveries well off,
A war of attrition has been going on for months now. As long as the parties maintain their positions, there seems to be no basis for a negotiated peace. The fighting on the war front could drag on for a long time.
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