From the G7 summit in Italy to the conference in Switzerland on Ukraine: no tangible results, while the armed conflict is claiming more and more victims

Part Four: The Donbas Dilemma

Ukraine’s current military recruitment campaign is not going according to plan.

MOSCOW, May 28 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Tuesday that NATO members in Europe were playing with fire by proposing to let Ukraine use Western weapons to strike deep inside Russia, which he said could trigger a global conflict.

What happens when a powerful nation cannot afford to lose a war it has already lost?

A friend recently sent me an article that was published in The Atlantic by a Ukrainian journalist. The title and subtitle read as follows:

What is the meaning of the recent cabinet reshuffle in Moscow and what is the current state of the war in Ukraine? To answer these and others questions, Pascal Lottaz talks to ACURA’s Nicolai Petro. As the front lines of Ukraine are disintegrating and the political leadership in Kiev is in disarray, the west still refuses to seriously contemplate talking about a realistic peace (or at least cessation of hostilities) in Ukraine. Rather, the wizards in Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, and Warsaw contemplate NATO boots on the ground or—at least the germans—motivating Rumania and Poland to start using their air defence systems to shoot down Russian missiles and drones over Ukraine from the safety of their states. Crazy ideas and escalatory to say the least. This and the recent cabinet reshuffle are the topics of this first interview part with Nicolai N. Petro.

Ukraine has suffered troop losses of between 400 and 500,000 and Russian troops are advancing with increasing rapidity on all fronts. Arkhangelskoye and Kotlyarivka have been taken by Russian troops and the critical strategic town of Chasov Yar is about to fall. Even where Ukrainian troops had some success in breaking through at Rabotino in the Zaporizhzhia region they are now in retreat.

An interview with Nima R. Alkhorshid (Federal University of Itajuba, Brazil) for Dialogue Works, April 3, 2024.

Background Briefing with Ian Masters talks to Quincy Institute Director of Grand Strategy George Beebe.