On the 24th of February 2022, Russia launched a large-scale military invasion of Ukraine, one of its neighbours to the southwest, marking an escalation to a conflict that began in 2014.
While Ukraine desires to join NATO, the military alliance which was formed in 1949 under the North Atlantic Treaty, an initiative designed to safeguard the freedom, common heritage, and civilization of the people, following the widespread destruction during World War II; Putin, on the other hand, doesn’t want Ukraine to be a part of NATO because if this happens, NATO would have access to his doorstep and he feels it would compromise the national security of Russia.
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Are there better ways that Vladimir Putin could have handled this issue, are there steps he should have taken instead of following the path he chose, could Ukraine have been more understanding? So many questions but the fact remain that the Russia-Ukraine crisis is an invasion that should never have been; because war is never the answer. When there is war it’s usually the innocent citizens that bear the brunt of the war.
So far, the death toll in Ukraine keeps increasing day by day as destruction abounds because of the war. Russia on the other hand is having a Russian ruble and financial crisis as a result of the sanctions they have received from other nations like the UK, US, Taiwan, EU, Australia, Switzerland, etc. The Russia-Ukraine crisis is a double-edged sword that doesn’t bear good fruit. Although Putin came out to reveal that he invaded Ukraine not to occupy the nation but as a special military occupation and to demilitarize and neutralize the threat from their neighbouring country.
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His words might be making sense but looking at lives lost, properties lost, the destruction, the displacement of foreigners who had to scramble for safety, come on, war is never the answer, especially with the health crisis of COVID-19 the world is just recovering from. War recks the economy of a nation and the people suffer. Many hope that this nightmare will come to an end very soon because the Russia-Ukraine crisis is indeed an invasion that should never have been.
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