Why did the Russian forces entered the lands of their Ukrainian neighbor, and what does Putin want?

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By air, and sea, Russia launched a devastating attack on Ukraine, the European democratic country with a population of 44 million..

For months, Russian President Vladimir Putin denied planning the invasion of Ukraine, but now tore a peace agreement and sent his forces across the border to the northern, eastern and southern regions of Ukraine.

While the death toll is rising, Putin faces accusations that he threatens peace in Europe.What is happening in the coming days may threaten the security of the entire European continent.

What sites that Russian forces attacked and why?

Military airports and headquarters were bombed near cities across Ukraine, including the main Borisspel International Airport in Kyiv.

Then the Russian tanks and forces penetrated in the northeast of Ukraine, near the city of Kharkif, which has a population of 1.4 million people, and in the east near Luhansk, as from the neighboring Belarus in the north.The Russian forces in the cities of Odessa and the Great Mariolol were descended in southern Ukraine.Moments before the start of the invasion, President Putin appeared on television, declaring that Russia cannot feel "safe and evolve" because of what he described as the constant threat from modern Ukraine

President Putin presented many wrong or irrational arguments, as he claimed that his goal of the military operation is to protect people who "are exposed to bullying and genocide", and that he seeks to "disarm and Nazi ideas" from Ukraine.

There was no genocide in Ukraine, which is a vibrant democracy led by a Jewish president."How can I be Nazia?"Folodimer Zellinski, who likened Russia's attack by invading Nazi Germany in World War II.President Putin has often accused that the extremists took control of Ukraine, since the overthrow of its pro -Russian president, Victor Yanukovic, in 2014 after months of protests against his rule..Russia responded to this by controlling the southern Crimea and supporting a rebellion in the east by the separatists loyal to Moscow who fought the Ukrainian forces in a war that has so far killed 14,000 people.In late 2021, Putin began deploying large numbers of Russian forces near the borders of Ukraine.Then this week he canceled a peace agreement concluded in 2015 in the east and confessed to the areas controlled by the rebels as independent areas.Russia has always resisted the movement of Ukraine towards the European Union and the NATO Alliance.Upon announcing the military operation in Ukraine, Putin accused NATO of threatening "our historical future as a nation".

To what extent will Russia go?

At the present time, it is not clear whether the Russian leader is seeking to overthrow the democratic elected government of Ukraine.The Kremlin refused to declare this matter, despite his belief that the ideal scenario requires "the liberation of Ukraine and its purification from the Nazis".However, by entering his forces from Belarus and near Kharkiv in the north, Putin sends a sign that his goals exceed the eastern areas that struck them eight years of war..In the days before the invasion, when up to 200,000 Russian soldiers were close to the borders of Ukraine, Putin focused his attention on the East.But by admitting the pro -Russian states in Luhansk and Donitsk as two independent states, he had already decided that they were no longer part of Ukraine..Then he revealed that he supports the demands of separatists with more Ukrainian lands.

The "popular republics" that have installed themselves cover more than a third of the areas.The Russian president said: “We have recognized them, and this means that we confessed to all their establishment documents.”.Putin was not satisfied with admitting them, but signed a decree allowing Russian forces to station there publicly and by creating military bases as well.

How dangerous is the invasion of Europe?

These are terrifying times for the Ukrainian people.

Dozens were already killed by civilians and soldiers, in what Germany called "Putin's War".For European leaders, this invasion brought some of the darkest hours since World War II.For the families of those involved in the armed forces of the two countries, there will be difficult days to come.Although the invasion of its neighbor was a rubber seal by the Senate in the Russian Parliament, this is not a war that the Russian people were ready for it.The head of the Joint American Staff Mark Millie said that the size of the Russian forces warns of a "terrible" scenario with the fighting of intense urban areas.

Ukraine has strengthened the power of its armed forces in recent years, and Russia is facing hostile residents.The army summoned all the reserve soldiers between the ages of 18 and 60.In the words of German counselor Olaf Schultz: “There is no justification for the step.This is the Putin War ”.But the invasion will have indirect effects on many other countries adjacent to both Russia and Ukraine.Latvia, Poland and Moldova say it is preparing for the flow of refugees.Moldova and Lithuania announced the state of emergency.

What can the West do?

NATO put its warplanes on alert, but the Western alliance made it clear that he had no plans to send combat forces to Ukraine itself.Instead, Ukraine was offered to provide advisers, weapons and field hospitals.Meanwhile, 5,000 NATO soldiers were deployed in the Baltic countries and Poland.4000 others can be sent to Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia.The West focused on taking measures against Russian financing and some individuals.Immediately after Putin tore the Minsk peace agreement for the year 2015 with Ukraine, a set of sanctions were imposed with more measures in the hope that Russia will not attack:

The three Baltic countries have now called on the entire international community to separate the Russian banking system from the international rapid payment system (Swift).This can be badly affecting the economies of the United States and Europe.

What does Putin want?

In the weeks and months before the Russian forces entered Ukraine, Russia has submitted a series of demands to obtain "security guarantees" from the West, most of which relate to NATO (NATO).

President Putin partially blamed his decision to attack NATO East.He had complained earlier that Russia “has no other place to retreat - do they think that we will remain idle?” The Deputy Secretary of State Sergey Ryabkov said: “For us, it is completely mandatory to make sure that Ukraine will never become a member of NATO”.Putin's other basic demands are that NATO not to deploy “offensive weapons near the borders of Russia”, and to remove the forces and military infrastructure from the member states that have joined the alliance since 1997.This means Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Baltic countries.In fact, Russia wants NATO to return to the pre -1997 borders.

Last year, President Putin wrote a long article in which the Russians and the Ukrainians described as a "one nation", and described the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991 as "disintegration of historical Russia".He claimed that modern Ukraine was fully created by Communist Russia and is now a doll country, controlled by the West.President Putin also argued that if Ukraine joins NATO, the alliance may try to restore the Crimea.

What does NATO say?

NATO is a defensive alliance that works with the policy of open door to the new members, and its 30 member states, provided that this feature remains the same..

He called on the Ukrainian President to put "clear and possible time frames" to join NATO, but this does not seem to happen in the foreseeable term, as the German advisor explained.

The idea that any of the current NATO countries abandons its membership is absolutely not contained.

From the point of view of President Putin, the West pledged in 1990 that NATO would not expand "one additional inch to the east", but he did so anyway.

This was before the collapse of the Soviet Union, so the promise that was made for the then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev only referred to East Germany in the context of talking about unified Germany.

"The issue of NATO expansion has never been discussed" at that time.

Is there a diplomatic solution to the crisis?

Not at the present time, but any final deal should cover both war in eastern Ukraine, and reduce the spread of weapons.

The United States offered the start of talks on limiting short and medium -range missile deploy.Russia wanted to ban the deployment of all US nuclear weapons outside its national territory.

Russia was positive towards a "transparent mechanism" to examine the mutual missile bases under which Washington provides reassurances that it had no cruise missiles in Poland or Romania, and Russia provides assurances on the two Russian missiles..