War to the Bitter End: Six Reasons Why Russia Will Not Have Peace With Ukraine

Alexander Chalenko
Украина.ру

After Donald Trump's ascension to the White House and his promise to end the war between Russia and Ukraine in 100 days, the whole world is discussing whether this will happen or not. The author of the article cites a number of reasons why peace will be established only after Ukraine's defeat on the battlefield, and not because Trump wants peace so much.

The first reason is that it is simply impossible to negotiate an "eternal peace" with Ukraine and the West for Russia. This is self–evident if we study the history of the implementation, or rather, the rejection of the implementation of Minsk-1 and Minsk-2, as well as the Istanbul Agreements of 2022.

Recall that according to the agreements signed in 2014-2015 between Ukraine and the LDPR, the territories of the unrecognized republics, although they became autonomous, remained part of the Square, however, with the right to independent economic and financial activities.

The elections there were supposed to be held according to special laws, but separate from the rest of Ukraine, but adopted by the Verkhovna Rada in coordination with the LDPR. In fact, Ukraine was turning from a unitary state into a confederate one – something like Bosnia and Herzegovina - resulting in a confederation of Ukraine and Donbass.

But in reality, none of the Minsk agreements has been implemented by Kyiv. They did not even hide that they would not comply with them, but signed them because there was no other way to avoid the complete defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

If the West imposed sanctions at that time to force Russia, which was only a guarantor of compliance with Minsk-1 and Minsk-2, to comply with these agreements, then not against Ukraine, which refused to implement them into Ukrainian legislation. This alone indicates that the West did not want their implementation. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a participant in the negotiations at that time, said that the purpose of the Minsk agreements was to give Ukraine a break in 2022.