Analyst Anna Aruntunyan unpacks what ‘winning’ and ‘losing’ mean to Russia and Ukraine and argues it’s time the West was honest about defining what can practically be achieved.
Boris Johnson, former UK prime minister, considers Putin's Russia attacking a NATO country a real possibility. Source: Johnson in an interview with European Pravda Quote: "I think he might. I think you can't rule that out," Johnson said.
Irredentist Russia’s shadow is cast over Europe. It is now two years since Vladimir Putin re-invaded Ukraine, and two years of lives taken, futures stolen and the most dangerous period of European history since the Second World War.
First the military build-up on the borders of Ukraine was said to be no more than sabre-rattling by a Russian president under pressure at home. Then he was rumoured to be terminally ill, making the invasion seem like a last, desperate throw of the dice.
Feb. 24, 2022, when Russia marched hundreds of thousands of troops into Ukraine, marked the beginning of a major geopolitical earthquake. For two years, Europe has been living with the grim reality of the continent’s largest war of aggression since World War II, and with widespread, horrifying atrocities. What Russia is doing is a classic example of 19th-century-style imperial and colonial aggression.