Zelensky had expressed concern in his nightly address that the world’s attention may drift away from Ukraine. Austin said that Russia’s invasion was “what happens when oppressors trample the rules that protect us all.” He spoke after Mr. Speaking at a security summit in Singapore, Mr. “And it’s a preview of a possible world of chaos and turmoil that none of us would want to live in.” “It’s what happens when big powers decide that their imperial appetites matter more than the rights of their peaceful neighbors,” he said. Austin III, on a visit to Asia to warn of potential Chinese aggression against Taiwan, tried on Saturday to shore up support for the West’s ardent backing of Ukraine against the Russian invasion. In this context, the strong partnership between China and Russia is viewed not with the hostility and anxiety it provokes in the West, but rather as a salutary challenge to a Western-dominated global system. More generally, there is resentment in much of the developing world of what is seen as American domination, viewed as a hangover from the 20th century. The Ukrainians are nearly defenseless against Russia’s long-range artillery. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the United States’ invasion of Iraq in 2003 they seem unlikely to be persuaded otherwise.Ī Ukrainian solider taking cover on Friday as Russian artillery shells landed near his position on the front line in the Donetsk region. Many countries see little difference between Mr. Putin’s pariah status in the West appears unlikely to change.Įlsewhere, however, in Africa and Asia, support for the West - and for Ukraine - is more nuanced. If the Russian economy has shown surprising resilience, it has been hard hit by Western sanctions a brain drain will undermine growth for many years. Putin, whose autocratic hold on Russia keeps tightening. Russian losses in the war are not yet known, but certainly run into the tens of thousands, a potential source of anger toward Mr. Attacks by former Ukrainian soldiers and civilians have picked up in recent weeks. Russia has its own difficulties, particularly in southern Ukraine, where the provincial capital of Kherson captured earlier in the war is still contested. His invasion has, however, cemented and galvanized Ukrainian national identity in ways previously unimaginable. He has repeatedly insisted that Ukraine is not a real nation and that its true identity is Russian.
Putin has made himself, is dear to the Russian president’s heart. Putin with Peter the Great, Russia’s first emperor, blares from cars in Mariupol in what Petro Andriushchenko, an adviser to the city’s mayor, called a “pseudohistorical” onslaught. Citizens there and in cities like Kherson and Melitopol face a bleak choice: If they want to work, they must first obtain a Russian passport, a blandishment offered to secure a semblance of loyalty to Moscow. It has set out to convince and coerce the remaining population that its future lies in what Mr. Russia also appears to be making headway in establishing control in towns it has captured, including the leveled Black Sea port of Mariupol.
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While Ukraine is holding Russia back in the major regional city of Sievierodonetsk, it is suffering heavy losses - at least 100 fatalities a day, though their full extent is not yet known - and desperately needs more weapons and ammunition.Ī Ukrainian police officer this week near a destroyed bridge that once connected the embattled cities of Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk in the Donbas region. Despite urgent pleas to the West for more heavy weapons, Ukrainian forces appear to lack what it takes to confront Russian use of artillery for scorched-earth shelling of towns and villages. Nowhere is that slog more evident than in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. In their place is a war that is evolving into what analysts increasingly say will be a long slog, placing growing pressure on the governments and economies of Western countries and others throughout the world. Putin’s indiscriminate bombardment united the West in outrage - have begun to fade. Yet, the heady early days of the war - when the Ukrainian underdog held off a deluded and inept aggressor and Mr. “It is on the battlefields in Ukraine that the future rules of this world are being decided.” “We are definitely going to prevail in this war that Russia has started,” he told a conference in Singapore in a video appearance. On Saturday, Ukraine’s agile president, Volodymyr Zelensky, once again promised victory.
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