The president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, in kyiv. photo EFE
The Russian invasion of Ukraine, which shocked the world with its cruelty and left thousands dead and cities destroyed, turns six months this Wednesday in a scenario of military stalemate and with great uncertainty about the consequences it will ultimately entail in Europe and in the world.
Paradoxically, it coincides with Ukraine’s Independence Day, a date that commemorates August 24, 1991, when the country emancipated itself from the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The anniversary only gave rise to new threats from both sideswhich heralds a protracted conflict.
The US accused Russia of planning on Tuesday an imminent intensification of bombing on major cities in Ukraine and France, he asked Western countries not to show “any weakness” in Moscow.
“Russia could go to great lengths to do something particularly disgusting and cruel on this anniversary. One of the enemy’s key objectives is to generate despondency, fear and conflict. We must be strong enough to resist any provocation and make the occupiers pay for their terror, “said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Russia showed the same harshness of tone. His foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, warned that “there will be no mercy” for the killers of Daria Duguina, daughter of a Russian ultra-nationalist ideologue close to President Vladimir Putin, who died Saturday in the explosion of her car in the Moscow region. attack that the Kremlin attributes to the Ukrainians.
Stagnation
In the military field, Russia persists in the invasion, despite its powerful army is locked. When the invasion was launched on February 24, the Russian high command thought it would be a hit and run operation that would allow them to overthrow the Zelensky government and quickly control the entire country.
The momentum initially shown by the Russian army was lost in the face of resistance from Ukrainian troops, which received enormous aid in both arms and funds from the United States and European powers.
Source: Clarin
