It seems that the Russian President has already prepared every step.
(Photo: AP)
If there is any such thing as sacrilege in international relations, it is disregard for another state’s territorial integrity. Since Monday, Vladimir Putin has done exactly that: the Russian President denies Ukraine’s right to sovereignty by recognizing the “People’s Republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states, i.e. granting them sovereignty.
The gentleman in the Kremlin gives. The gentleman in the Kremlin takes. And the gentleman in the Kremlin is about to send troops to the so-called People’s Republics. He calls it a “peace mission.” It’s a war mission.
The Minsk process has been dead since Monday at the latest, as has the Normandy format, and so has the belief that there can still be a peaceful solution to this Ukraine conflict. All the diplomatic efforts of the past few weeks, all the state visits to Moscow, all the benevolent appeals from the West to continue negotiations – in vain.
Legal legitimation of a military invasion
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