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The editorial of Le Figaro: "In Ukraine, a war without a goal"

2022-12-09T18:51:55.876Z


By Philippe Gélie, deputy editorial director. It seems these days that Russia is looking for the reasons for its presence in Ukraine. “Why are the Ukrainians fighting?” an ingenuous Russian television host recently asked her panel of guests, as if the brutal invasion of their country could not explain it. Vladimir Putin himself let himself go this Thursday to present "the conquest of new territories" as "a good result" in itself. The Kremlin,


It seems these days that Russia is looking for the reasons for its presence in Ukraine.

“Why are the Ukrainians fighting?”

an ingenuous Russian television host recently asked her panel of guests, as if the brutal invasion of their country could not explain it.

Vladimir Putin himself let himself go this Thursday to present

"the conquest of new territories"

as

"a good result"

in itself.

The Kremlin, however, found it necessary to rectify, reiterating its ambitions

“of denazification and demilitarization”

of the evil neighbor.

Russia is pouring its conscripts and its state-of-the-art tanks into the Ukrainian hell, while multiplying the indications that it could be satisfied with what it has.

Putin is pleased that the Sea of ​​Azov has become a

Russian

"inland sea"

,

recalling that it was an aspiration of Tsar Peter the Great, to whom he likes to compare himself.

But there is

“no longer any question of annexing new territories”

and the fixed horizon is negotiation, because it will be necessary

“at the…

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Source: lefigaro

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