With no way out of a worsening war, Zelensky’s options look bad or worse

The Washington Post via MSN ^ | April 6, 2024 | Isabelle Khurshudyan

[McGruff]

As Russia steps up airstrikes and once again advances on the battlefield in Ukraine more than two years into its bloody invasion, there is no end to the fighting in sight. And President Volodymyr Zelensky’s options for what to do next — much less how to win the war — range from bad to worse.

Zelensky has said Ukraine will accept nothing less than the return of all its territory, including land that Russia has controlled since 2014. But with the battle lines changing little in the last year, militarily retaking the swaths of east and south Ukraine that Russia now occupies — about 20 percent of the country — appears increasingly unlikely.

Negotiating with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war — something Zelensky has rejected as long as Russian troops remain on Ukrainian land — is politically toxic.

[woodpusher]

[#76] Are you at least a little bit interested in how Russia invaded Kharkiv and Kherson....

[#79] Nope, not even a little bit interested.

[#80] Funny you do seem quite interested based on the discussion we have been having

You will have to remind with a quote of any discussion we had about how Russia invaded Kharkiv and Kherson.

[blitz128]

The reference is to the invasion followed by the referendum in these areas to join Russia. The MO is the same as Luhansk and Donetsk, except in those cases the invasion was overt rather than covert(little green men)

We are still taking about taking of a sovereign countries territory, then trying to add legitimacy by staging a vote. The results of which were not recognized as legitimate by vast majority of the world, then and now

As I recall during the vote to leave Soviet control even Luhansk, Donetsk and Crimea voted by majority for independence in the context of a sovereign Ukraine

Just a curious pattern