Another round of talks delivering some 'small, positive' developments have ended overnight without a major breakthrough. Follow live.
For many of us who are only just coming to terms with this new battle zone, the tragic unravelling of peace has come at lightning speed.
Yet conflict between Ukraine and Russia is not new. Tensions have simmered ever since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991., with its prized port access, to Russia. And for the past eight years a bitter conflict in Ukraine’s eastern territory ofMore recently,, removing a strategic buffer between Russia and the rest of Europe.
In its crudest analysis, the goal of Russia’s invasion is to wrest control of Ukraine – an independent state – using force to coerce Kyiv into installing a puppet government that will act as an ally for its superpower neighbour. The endgame is to create awhich is now acting as a staging ground for Russian troops to invade Ukraine from the north.
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