According to him, the advance of Ukrainian troops into Crimea, where the majority of the population considers itself Russian and which, from Moscow’s point of view, is the same Russian region as any other, “is fraught with the risk of an uncontrollable escalation , which the administration of US President Joe Biden intends to avoid”.
Short is confident that Moscow cannot lose in the Ukraine conflict, writes RIA Novosti. That is why the most likely outcome of events will be the preservation of the territories annexed by Russia, the observer emphasized.
kyiv may have no choice but to reconcile, but the West will sweeten the pill by providing kyiv with massive reconstruction assistance, the observer concluded.
