Ukraine’s endgame

 

President Volodymyr Zelensky has suggested that the parts of Ukraine under his control should be taken "under the Nato umbrella" to try and stop the "hot phase" of the war.

In a long, wide-ranging interview with Sky News, the Ukrainian president was asked whether he would accept Nato membership, but only on the territory that Kyiv currently holds.

Zelensky said he would, but only if Nato membership was offered to the whole of Ukraine, within its internationally recognised borders, first.

Ukraine could then attempt to negotiate the return of territory currently under Russian control "in a diplomatic way", he said.

BBC 30 November 2024

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8g8ylvyldo

Some will still nobly argue the only acceptable end involves Russian troops retreating to the borders as they were at the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. 

Acquiescing in the formal change of frontiers is out of the question for Ukraine and most of its allies. 

But increasingly in Kyiv, Washington and across Europe there is a common view of the most likely outcome: a frozen conflict, with the issue of frontiers postponed indefinitely.

Alec Russell, FT's foreign editor, 21 November 2024

https://www.ft.com/content/92377da7-43ef-4ef5-a4b8-ead502f7e18e

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