Russia knowledgeable Anatol Lieven explores the choices going through Ukraine, Russia and the US.
The deal provided by the US is an “unlucky compromise” that needs to be accepted by Russia and Ukraine, argues Anatol Lieven, director of the Eurasia programme on the Quincy Institute for Accountable Statecraft.
Lieven tells host Steve Clemons that Ukraine’s leaders ought to acknowledge that the Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia over the previous years are misplaced.
He provides that Russia – by accepting a ceasefire on present battle traces – has “given up” on making an attempt to occupy all of the territory of Ukraine it had hoped for.
In the meantime, Europe “has nothing severe to supply” to finish the combating, Lieven says.
