Five scenarios how the war against Ukraine could continue – Europe

With pomp and pomp, the Russian propaganda had envisioned the planned and already pre-written report of the fatherland’s glorious victory over the “Nazis” in Kyiv: The lightning-fast triumph of the Russian army in Ukraine heralds a new era, President Vladimir Putin has the “Ukrainian question” solved once and for all. “Russia is restoring its historical wholeness by dividing the Russian world, the Russian people in their entirety from Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians (Ukrainians, note) together,” the chief commentator of the Kremlin-controlled news agency Ria Novosti cheered in a text that inadvertently trumpeted Putin’s supposed victory online to the world on Saturday.