Vladimir Putin sets conditions to end Ukraine war

Vladimir Putin sets conditions to end Ukraine war

Russia's leader Vladimir Putin has spelled out his conditions to end the Ukraine war. He demands Kiev to pull out its troops from the four regions Russia had claimed its own after launching military aggression against Ukraine in 2022. He also wants the West to lift all sanctions implemented against Moscow.

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Ukraine war: ten years after Putin annexed Crimea, Russia’s grip on the peninsula looks shaky

By Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham It is ten years since Russia illegally annexed Crimea on March 18 2014. Subsequent efforts to firmly integrate the peninsula into the Russian Federation, however, have been far from the success story that the Kremlin often likes to portray. In fact, comparing the increasingly shaky grip that Moscow has on the peninsula today with the situation before the annexation would suggest […]

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