At the end of a long diplomatic sequence, Vladimir Putin chose, on Monday February 21, to overturn the negotiating table, announcing that he recognized the self-proclaimed republics of Luhansk and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, then authorizing his army to return there to ” maintain peace “.
Faced with this initiative, the Western world, led by the Americans, has announced that it will strengthen its sanctions against Russia. Can they really push Vladimir Putin to back down? What is its end goal? Can the conflict spread to all of Ukraine?
In this episode of the “L’Heure du Monde” podcast, Benoît Vitkine, correspondent for World in Moscow, explains the Ukrainian crisis and the strategy of the master of the Kremlin.
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