Ukraine: A battle for existence
Russian state media reveals Putin’s plan to deny nationhood
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7 min readFeb 28, 2022
- Defend Ukraine
- Support the Russian and Belarus opposition
- Maximum sanctions to collapse the Putin/Lukashenko state
- Open Europe and the UK’s borders to refugees from Ukraine, of every ethnicity
- Arms, aid, debt relief and medical help to Ukraine
- Putin, Kadyrov and Lukashenko to The Hague
Events in Ukraine’s battle for existence are moving fast. The military situation is summarised by ISW:
- Russian forces are stalled outside Kyiv
- Up to 4,000 Wagner group operatives have been deployed into Kyiv to decapitate the government
- Mariupol is surrounded; Kharkiv was attacked but repulsed the offensive
- Russian territorial advances continue in the south, and on the Konotop-Kyiv axis.
- Russia conducted missile strikes out of Belarus, with Lukashenko indicating his troops may join the conflict
- An “operational pause” in response to the initial setbacks is expected to end today with a renewed offensive