Ukraine is determined: Crimea is to be recaptured. But can this tough attitude be maintained in the long term? The US has doubts.
- In the future without them Crimea? Negotiations on borders Ukraine conceivable for the USA.
- USA before against negotiations: Will annexation of Crimea never acknowledge.
- Read the latest developments here Ukraine conflict. The processed information on losses of the armies involved in the Ukraine war come partly from the warring parties Russia and Ukraine. They can therefore not be independently checked in part.
Update from March 24, 8:40 p.m.: Russia has accused Slovakia of breaching a contract for handing over Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine. According to a contract concluded in 1997, it is not permissible to hand over the machines to another state without Russia’s consent, the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation in Moscow announced.
The contract was also available on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Moscow spoke of an “unfriendly act” and a violation of Slovakia’s international obligations. Slovakian politics has not yet publicly responded to the Russian allegations, which Moscow’s embassy in Bratislava had previously voiced.
War in Ukraine: Chancellor Scholz calls on Beijing to hold talks with Ukraine
Update from March 24, 5:30 p.m.: After the Chinese-Russian summit in Moscow, Chancellor Olaf Scholz expects the leadership in Beijing to hold talks with Ukraine. “What we naturally find, however, is that one should not only talk to the Russian president (but) also to the Ukrainian one,” said the SPD politician after the EU summit in Brussels. He also reiterated that he believes the basis of a fair peace in Ukraine is Russia’s troop withdrawal. “That is clear to me at least and must then also be said in the public debate.”
China’s head of state and party leader Xi Jinping met Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on Tuesday to talk about the war and the expansion of the strategic partnership between the two countries. Even before Xi’s trip, Scholz had spoken out in favor of the Chinese President also contacting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The chancellor again warned China on Friday against arms deliveries to the Russian armed forces. That would be “a terrible mistake,” he said. So far, however, such deliveries have not been observed.
Ukraine war: Macron and Scholz apparently want cooperation with China
Update from March 24, 3:20 p.m.: According to the French head of state Emmanuel Macron, Germany and France want to expand cooperation with China in view of the Ukraine war. This is necessary in order to be able to influence Russia, he emphasized at a press conference in Brussels, according to the Russian state agency TASS. He spoke to Chancellor Olaf Scholz about this and they agreed that “maximum cooperation” with China had to put pressure on Russia. The aim is to convince the country not to use nuclear or chemical weapons. In addition, they want to do everything “to end the conflict and return to the negotiating table”.
War in Ukraine: Kiev insists on regaining Crimea
First report from March 24th: Moscow/Kyiv – For Volodymyr Zelenskyy the matter is clear. Negotiations in the Ukraine war are only possible if the Russian troops leave all the areas they have occupied, including Crimea. The Ukrainian President therefore repeatedly swears to his compatriots that that Crimea must become Ukrainian again.
“This is our country,” he emphasized, for example, on the Day of Resistance Against the Russian Occupation of Crimea (February 26). Peace will only return to Ukraine once Crimea is brought back. Negotiations with the Russian head of state Wladimir Putin Selenskyj currently rejects categorically.
However, the question now arises as to whether Ukraine can maintain this demand. Because apparently they are moving now USA deviated somewhat from their stance that Russia had to evacuate all Ukrainian territory before peace could prevail.
In the future without Crimea? Negotiations on Ukraine’s borders for USA conceivable
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken does not rule out long-term negotiations on Ukraine’s future borders. He believes there are areas in Ukraine “where Ukrainians are determined to fight on the ground,” he told a parliamentary committee in Washington, DC on Thursday (March 23). which they decide they want to try to regain by other means.”
According to observers, Blinken let it be known that Washington considers a reconquest of all Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia to be unlikely. Above all, the recapture of Crimea by Ukraine seems rather illusory to the USA.
However, Blinken also pointed out that the decision on this rests exclusively with the people of Ukraine. Any peace agreement must be “just and lasting”. According to Blinken, Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity must be preserved. “But how this is specifically defined in the territory, we’re waiting for the Ukrainians to tell us.”
US previously opposed to negotiations: will never recognize annexation of Crimea
Despite this, the US appears to be gradually changing its position on this issue. According to the US government, the complete withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory has so far been considered a prerequisite for possible peace negotiations. The annexation of the peninsula by Russia is not recognized and will never be done, Ned Price declared at the end of February. “Crimea is part of Ukraine,” the US State Department spokesman said at the time.
Losing Crimea is, however, unimaginable for Russia. The political scientist Gerhard Mangott saw this in an interview Merkur.de the Russian President here in a similar situation as Zelenskyy. “Recapturing Crimea would mean Putin’s fall and he is determined to prevent that,” Mangott said. “Should Crimea be endangered, I would not rule out that Putin uses tactical nuclear weapons.” (cs)
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