Why Russia must relinquish imperialist ambitions in Ukraine
Rescuers in Kyiv conducting a search and rescue operation on 29 August in and around a residential building heavily damaged during a large-scale Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv.
Photo by Ukrainian State Emergency Service/UPI. Credit: UPI/Alamy Live News
What Nato wants, indeed what almost the whole world wants, is for Russia and Ukraine to learn to live together side by side in peace.
That means Russia accepting Ukrainian sovereignty and its right to self-determination. It means Russia under Putin relinquishing ambitions to reconstruct something resembling the Soviet Union, or the Warsaw Pact zone in Eastern Europe, or even a replica of the old Orthodox vision of Holy Rus.
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