Now that Putin has ordered troops over the border, the chances to avoid a disastrous full-scale invasion are nearly spent, explains JonahShepp
Putin during Monday’s meeting of the Russian Security Council at Moscow’s Kremlin. Photo: Alexei Nikolsky/Alexei Nikolsky/TASS Russian president Vladimir Putin effectively launched a long-anticipated invasion of Ukraine on Monday night, ordering soldiers into the neighboring country on the pretext of a “peacekeeping” mission in parts of eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region controlled by Moscow-backed separatists.
If Putin proceeds with a full-on invasion of Ukraine, beyond the territory in Donbas, the likely trajectory of the coming conflict is grim. U.S. military and intelligence assessments hold that Russian forces could capture Kyiv in days, toppling Ukraine’s government and cutting a destructive path across the country that may leave over 50,000 dead and displace some 5 million refugees. On Sunday, the U.S. informed the U.N.
For now, Putin has moved the front lines of this battlefield from the formal border between Russia and Ukraine to the border between the separatist “republics” and the rest of Ukraine. In the meantime, Ukraine remains surrounded by some 190,000 Russian forces, including over 30,000 who took part in provocative military exercises in Belarus last week and have conspicuously remained.
The U.S.,European Union, and NATO all responded quickly to Putin’s aggressive move on Monday, denouncing it as a violation of international law and Ukraine’s sovereignty and vowing to respond with harsh sanctions. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden would imminently sign an executive order prohibiting U.S. entities from any trade or investment in the breakaway regions. The U.K. and E.U. also said they would apply new sanctions on Russia shortly.
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