How Much Longer?
It is high time the international community stopped giving Washington exclusive control over resolving an invasion that never should have happened in the first place.
How many people could be seriously affected by 50 days of war? This is the question the U.S. government should have asked itself before giving Russian President Vladimir Putin such a long period of time to end hostilities in Ukraine.
Especially now that the United Nations has reported that, after a month in which 232 people were killed and 1,343 more were injured, this June saw the most monthly civilian casualties since May 2022, just 90 days after Moscow launched its military invasion of the former Soviet republic.
The implications of this are that, even though Donald Trump has been promising to bring a swift end to the war since his election campaign, the conflict is, in reality, intensifying.
This is further evidenced by the more than 620 drones and missiles sent into Ukrainian territory by Russia last Saturday, many in areas located far from the front line.
It is therefore high time the international community stopped giving Washington exclusive control over resolving an invasion that never should have happened in the first place, one which, by February of this year, had already led to 12,600 civilian deaths and 29,000 injuries — including 2,400 children, according to U.N. statistics.
On the other hand, European countries have been called on to put a human face to these statistics, as well as to fight tooth and nail to ensure that Ukrainian lives do not depend solely on negotiations between Trump and Putin. This is especially so given that it seems the latter’s respect and credibility with the American president is running out, following Trump’s threat to send large shipments of arms to Kyiv through NATO if Putin does not end the war within 50 days.
However, if Moscow does not respond to diplomacy and negotiation, as has happened before, then Europe’s strategy should be to apply more pressure to the economic interests of Russia and its allies. For example, lowering the maximum price of oil exported to them — a plan recently announced by the EU and the U.K. — would be a good start.
Nevertheless, governments must play just as important a role in these initiatives as in others, ones that seek to send a message to Putin that he could end up isolated from the rest of the world if he continues to fight a senseless war that does nothing more than generate hate and division between two peoples. They share a common past and should not be separated by evil ambition.
Going down this path is the only way to get Moscow, which has also been hit by the supposed 100% increase in tariffs hypothetically introduced by Washington, to agree to advance negotiations. So far, these have only succeeded in securing the hand-over of the bodies of fallen soldiers and the exchange of a large number of prisoners.
Ukrainians deserve to be at peace once more, and the international community must not stop fighting to achieve this.
How many people could be seriously affected by 50 days of war? This is the question the U.S. government should have asked itself before giving Russian President Vladimir Putin such a long period of time to end hostilities in Ukraine.
Especially now that the United Nations has reported that, after a month in which 232 people were killed and 1,343 more were injured, this June saw the most monthly civilian casualties since May 2022, just 90 days after Moscow launched its military invasion of the former Soviet republic.
The implications of this are that, even though Donald Trump has been promising to bring a swift end to the war since his election campaign, the conflict is, in reality, intensifying.
This is further evidenced by the more than 620 drones and missiles sent into Ukrainian territory by Russia last Saturday, many in areas located far from the front line.
It is therefore high time the international community stopped giving Washington exclusive control over resolving an invasion that never should have happened in the first place, one which, by February of this year, had already led to 12,600 civilian deaths and 29,000 injuries — including 2,400 children, according to U.N. statistics.
On the other hand, European countries have been called on to put a human face to these statistics, as well as to fight tooth and nail to ensure that Ukrainian lives do not depend solely on negotiations between Trump and Putin. This is especially so given that it seems the latter’s respect and credibility with the American president is running out, following Trump’s threat to send large shipments of arms to Kyiv through NATO if Putin does not end the war within 50 days.
However, if Moscow does not respond to diplomacy and negotiation, as has happened before, then Europe’s strategy should be to apply more pressure to the economic interests of Russia and its allies. For example, lowering the maximum price of oil exported to them — a plan recently announced by the EU and the U.K. — would be a good start.
Nevertheless, governments must play just as important a role in these initiatives as in others, ones that seek to send a message to Putin that he could end up isolated from the rest of the world if he continues to fight a senseless war that does nothing more than generate hate and division between two peoples. They share a common past and should not be separated by evil ambition.
Going down this path is the only way to get Moscow, which has also been hit by the supposed 100% increase in tariffs hypothetically introduced by Washington, to agree to advance negotiations. So far, these have only succeeded in securing the hand-over of the bodies of fallen soldiers and the exchange of a large number of prisoners.
Ukrainians deserve to be at peace once more, and the international community must not stop fighting to achieve this.
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