The Dhaka Times Desk Russia has launched an all-out military campaign against its neighbor Ukraine. And after the start of this campaign, many casualties have also been reported. In such a situation the whole world is terrified.
The military operation began on Thursday morning on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin. After the start of the operation, there were reports of heavy casualties in Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities confirmed the death of 137 military-civilian people on Thursday alone. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called for a ceasefire and offered to negotiate with Russia. However, Russian authorities have said that negotiations can only take place if the Ukrainian army abandons its weapons.
Since the end of last year, several countries, including the United States, have been claiming that Russia may launch a military operation in Ukraine in February. For this purpose, the country gathered a large army near the border of Ukraine. Also conducts large-scale war exercises. However, it was repeatedly rejected by Russia. The United States, the United Kingdom, and some countries in the European Union have repeatedly warned Russia that Russia will face severe sanctions if it conducts operations in Ukraine.
Russia eventually launched an offensive in Ukraine despite threats of Western sanctions. For good reason, the question is why Russia attacked Ukraine?
According to a report of the British media The Guardian, Ukraine is strategically very important for Russia. Ukraine was one of the mainstays of the former Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the North Atlantic Security Alliance or NATO began to move eastward. They admitted some of the countries that were in the communist zone. NATO says Ukraine will also become a member in the future. Putin has always seen this expansion of NATO as an existential threat. Russia has always opposed Ukraine's relationship with the European Union. At the same time, it has opposed Ukraine's desire to become a member of NATO.
According to a report by US media CNBC, last December, Russia asked NATO and the United States for assurances that Ukraine would never become a member of NATO. Analysts believe that Putin knew the West would never accept this demand. Through this, Putin also found a kind of justification for attacking Ukraine. Putin is not even willing to go into a long discussion about this. He thinks that if the West guarantees, it should be given now. We have not deployed missiles near the US border, but the US has come home with missiles. Russia's interests and security will not be compromised. At the same time, Putin wants NATO to withdraw from Russia's front countries like Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria.
The current government of Ukraine has been leaning towards the West for the last few years. The country's president, Vladimir Zelensky, has publicly expressed his desire to join the European Union and NATO. However, Ukraine is unlikely to join the EU or NATO anytime soon.
In such a situation, Putin was looking for a way to attack Ukraine. The road was already built. After the overthrow of the pro-Russian government in Ukraine in 2014, Russia invaded and annexed Crimea from Ukraine. At that time, pro-Russian rebels announced that they had taken control of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine. Since then, the rebels have been fighting with the Ukrainian army. The two countries were involved in 'proxy' wars in these two areas. However, Russia has denied the allegations of arming the rebels. Between 13 and 14 thousand people died in the conflict in these two regions in the last 8 years.
Denis Pushilin, the Russian-backed leader of the Donetsk People's Republic, or DNR, and Leonid Pasechnyk, the Russian-backed leader of the Luhansk Republic LNR, won the 2018 election. But the international community did not recognize their victory. Both these leaders called for the territories they controlled to join the two Russian Federations. After recognizing the two breakaway areas last week, Putin sent Russian troops to Donetsk and Luhansk for 'peacekeeping missions'. This means that Russian troops will now be deployed on the territory of the sovereign state of Ukraine.
What Putin actually wants through this war? CNBC says the Ukraine war is a struggle for influence and power. Analysts believe that the operation is also a warning message from Russia to other neighboring countries. The Guardian also said that there are many theories in this regard. Putin has repeatedly expressed regret over the collapse of the Soviet Union. Currently, Putin wants to create a Russian sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. Also, through this attack, Putin wants to tell the West that Russia is still one of the world's superpowers.
In this regard, US President Joe Biden said, Russia has several other objectives in Ukraine. Putin may actually want to re-establish the former Soviet Union.
On the second day of this all-out military attack, Russian troops have entered the capital of Ukraine, Kiev. The ultimate goal of this campaign is still unknown. The world may find out one day whether Putin will stop at the end of overthrowing the democratic government of Ukraine, or if he has other ulterior motives. Source: Ittefaq.
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