Key challenges in settling the Ukraine conflict: Territorial disposition and Sovereignty,

Much It was also dominant in a brutal tract has been made of the Putin regime’s issued by the RIA Novosti news agency hubris and naivete in assuming that its in early April, evidently to provide cover invasion in February would succeed in for the military withdrawals occupying Kyiv and overthrowing the (‘regrouping’) from the environs of Kyiv Zelensky government within three 8 and elsewhere in nor. [...] The city of Mariupol response in 2022 has, for example, been subject to The weaknesses in Ukrainian statehood protracted attack and extensive – and cohesive nationhood – evident in destruction despite a third of its Crimea and the Donbas in 2014-15 population previously identifying as stood in marked contrast to their Russian, and 92 per cent as Russian 13 strength and effectiveness in the face sp. [...] Since the early 1990s, the OSCE instability behind the ‘Orange (which includes all interested parties as Revolution’ in 2004 and ‘Revolution of members – Ukraine, Russia and the Dignity’ a decade later: events that also NATO and EU states), has developed made the orientation of the Ukrainian extensive experience in election state and society an increasing source supervision and monitoring. [...] Great Powers of that period within the When this approach was taken in the framework of the so-called ‘Concert of 1990s regarding the disposition of the Europe’. [...] Less laudably, should, for their part, be actively perhaps, Great Powers claimed the engaged in assisting with the right to regulate the policies and restoration and long-term security and affiliations – and sometimes even the sustainability of the Ukrainian state existence – of smaller states on their and society that emerges from this peripheries.