Vladimir Putin destroyed the peace in Europe.

 

Vladimir Putin destroyed the peace in Europe by waging war against Ukraine:

Vladimir Putin destroyed the peace in Europe by waging war against Ukraine: a democracy with a population of 44 million. Justifying the war, President Putin argued that modern, pro-Western Ukraine was a constant threat to Russia, that Russia, being such a neighbor, was "insecure" and that it needed to do so for its own development and existence. Understands danger. With thousands of people killed and millions displaced after weeks of bombings, the question of what the purpose of President Putin's war is and whether it is likely to end is significant. Why did President Putin invade Ukraine? The goals set by President Putin at the beginning of the Russian invasion were dashed during the war, which he thought would quickly win. He preferred the myth of a "special military operation" and could not admit that it was an attack or a war. But what is clear is that they see it as an important moment in Russia's history.

 "Russia's future and its position in the world are at stake," said Sergei Naryshkin, the country's foreign intelligence chief. President Putin's initial goal was to gain control of Ukraine and overthrow his government, ending his desire to join the Western defense alliance, NATO. President Putin has told the Russian people that his goal is to demilitarize Ukraine and free Ukraine from Nazi influence, "It is not our intention to occupy Ukrainian territory," he said. " But there were no Nazis and no genocide, and Russia has imposed brutal force on dozens of towns and cities, uniting Ukrainians against its occupation. Russia continues to bomb Ukraine. 

But according to the latest reports from the peace talks, Russia is no longer trying to overthrow the government and instead wants to see a neutral Ukraine. Why does Putin want to see a neutral Ukraine? After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine, after its independence in 1991, began to gradually shift its focus to the West, the European Union, and NATO. Seeing the collapse of the Soviet Union as a "breakdown of historic Russia", President Putin aims to change that. He claims that the Russians and the Ukrainians are one and the same.

 Denying the history of Ukraine, he said that Ukraine has never had the tradition of a real and responsible state. In 2013, President Putin pressured Ukraine's pro-Russian leader Viktor Yanukovych not to sign an agreement with the European Union, sparking protests. Thus, in February 2014, the leader of Ukraine had to leave. Russia retaliated by occupying Crimea in southern Ukraine in 2014 and sparking an uprising in the east, backing separatists who fought Ukrainian forces in an eight-year war. It killed 14,000 people. This was followed by a ceasefire and then in 2015 the Minsk Peace Accords, which never came into force.

 Before the invasion of Ukraine, President Putin broke the peace agreement and recognized the two Russian-backed states as independent of Ukraine. With the deployment, President Putin accused NATO of "threatening our historic future as a nation" and made baseless claims that NATO countries wanted to wage war in Crimea. Is there a way out of this war? Mikhail Podoliak, Ukraine's presidential adviser, believes a ceasefire could be reached in the coming days as Russian forces are stuck in their current position. According to him, the two sides have spoken positively about the progress of the talks and President Putin has softened his stance. At the start of the war, President Putin wanted Ukraine to recognize Crimea as part of Russia and to recognize the independence of the separatist-administered East.

 Ukraine will have to change its constitution to guarantee that it will not join NATO or the European Union. The future status of Crimea and the two Russian-backed states in Luhansk and Donetsk are still far from being resolved, but the agreement cannot be broken if both sides agree to resolve the issue at a later date. Russia seems to have accepted that it cannot remove Ukraine's leadership and replace it with a puppet government, as is the case in Belarus. President Vladimir Zelensky said he had been warned at the start of the war that "the enemy has nominated me as the number one target while my family is the number two target. It looks like Putin will have to accept a very limited list," said Tatiana Stanovaya, an analyst at R-Politic and Carnegie Moscow Center.

 This is because Russia is considering a "neutral, non-military" Ukraine with its military and navy along the lines of Austria or Sweden, both of which are members of the European Union. Austria is neutral but not Sweden. In fact, it is unconnected and participates in NATO exercises. What are the demands of Ukraine?