It is 5:40 a.m. on February 24 when Vladimir Putin explains on Russian state television why Russian troops are invading Ukraine. He justifies this step with the threat “emanating from the West in the course of the expansion of the NATO bloc to Ukraine and thus also to Russia”. For thirty years Moscow has tried to reach an agreement on the principles of security in Europe, but has encountered only “cynical deceit and lies, or attempts at pressure and blackmail”. The “promise to our country not to expand NATO one inch further east” was one of them. “You have deceived us.”
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