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In recent weeks, the US and other NATO countries sent weapons to Ukraine and trained the country’s military while explicitly refusing to close the door to Ukraine’s membership in the military alliance. Russia’s ongoing military operation in Ukraine after months of diplomatic breakdown will cease if Ukraine agrees to demilitarize and to set a neutral course between Russia and NATO, the Kremlin has communicated. …
After weeks of US claims that a Russian invasion of Ukraine was imminent, Vladimir Putin instead recognized the breakaway republics of Luhansk and Donetsk. The decision has triggered a new round of US-led sanctions while bringing attention to rebel-held areas, where, according to UN figures on the Donbas war, 80% of civilian casualties have occurred since 2018. …
Russell “Texas” Bentley is based in Donetsk and has been in Donbass since December 2014 as a soldier in the Novorussian Army in Vostok and XAH Battalions. He will detail the situation on the ground as Russia recognizes the breakaway republics and sends peacekeeping troops to end the grinding conflict with Ukraine. …
Ben Aris, editor-in-chief of bne IntelliNews, discusses Vladimir Putin’s motivations for recognising the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, NATO expansion causing major security concerns for Russia, Ukraine’s Zelensky declaring that he won’t implement the Minsk agreements – a trigger point for Putin, Ukraine tensions posing the biggest crisis for the West since the Cuban Missile Crisis …
