Putin will never 'give up on Ukraine' as long as he's in the Kremlin, top Russia expert warns
Putin will never 'give up on Ukraine' as long as he's in the Kremlin, top Russia expert warnsRussian President Vladimir Putin stands in a hall prior to a meeting with his Belarus' counterpart at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 11, 2022.Putin will never give up on his goal of controlling Ukraine, Angela Stent, a top Russia expert, told Insider.Stent also said that Russia was"not serious" about peace talks with Ukraine.
"He is not going to give up on his goal of subordinating Ukraine" and"having a government there that's pro-Russian," Stent said, adding,"That's his goal. He obviously hasn't achieved it now and he probably won't in the near future, but he's not going give up on that." Under Putin, who has ruled for roughly two decades, Russia has taken aggressive actions against Ukraine. In 2014, Russia invaded Ukraine and seized Crimea. The Kremlin also began supporting rebels in a war against Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine that year.
and has repeatedly suggested that Ukraine — formerly part of the Soviet Union — is not a real country. Ukrainian soldiers stand by a burnt Russian tank on the outskirts of Kyiv, on March 31, 2022.
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