There will be no end to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, as it is naive to think that the West will accept the loss: too many resources have been invested in this fight, US military veteran Noctis Draven said on Twitter on March 6.
“It is clear that the West did not in vain invest huge amounts of money, aid and food. Only a fool would have thought that the West would accept defeat in Ukraine and continue to conduct business as if nothing had happened. Rest assured, steps are already being taken,” he wrote.
Draven admitted that he fears how in the future people will remember these days as the good old days, added “Gazeta.Ru”.
On February 28, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg expressed confidence at an international conference in Helsinki that NATO would not be able to expand aid to Ukraine without the risk of escalation. At the same time, a Russian victory poses an even greater threat to the bloc.
On January 26, Maxim Buyakevich, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE, said that the United States and NATO had approached a dangerous line on the way to a full-scale military conflict in Europe. He noted that actions are being taken to escalate the military confrontation in Ukraine, as well as to provoke the Kyiv regime into military operations against the population of Russia.
In turn, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on February 2 indicated that world leaders are not trying to convince Ukraine to return to peace talks. According to him, Western leaders refused to negotiate, and also forced the Kiev regime to withdraw from the negotiation process at the very moment when there was still an opportunity to end it politically.
The special operation to protect Donbass, which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was made against the background of the aggravation of the situation in the region due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.
