Why Delhi Must Back Kyiv's Quest for Peace

Today marks three years since Russia unleashed the largest war in Europe since World War II.

- Oleksandr Polishchuk

However, the Kremlin regime has failed to break the will of the Ukrainian people. Russia was unable to achieve its goals on the battlefield, so it resorted to successive destruction of Ukrainian civil infrastructure, murders of peaceful Ukrainians, abductions of children, and violations of the norms and customs of war, including the Geneva Conventions. These actions are a manifestation of terrorism at the State level.

The International Criminal Court recognized Putin as an international criminal for the crimes he committed.

Despite political and military fiasco, Putin stubbornly brings closer the economic collapse of Russia, striving to receive military victory over Ukraine at any cost. The exhaustion of the Russian economy and the crisis in its social sphere are the result of its enormous defense expenses. Forecasts of independent economists for Russia in 2025-2026 are very bleak.

It might repeat the destiny of the erstwhile Soviet Union, which was building its military capabilities in the background of the war in Afghanistan.

Putin's aggression against Ukraine has fundamentally changed the European security architecture. He dispelled all myths about security threats to Russia from the West or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). For almost 80 years, the Soviet Union and, subsequently, Russia didn't face any military threats from Western Europe or the United States (US). On the contrary, it was the Soviet Union that harshly suppressed every sprout of democracy in Eastern Europe by military force, most notably Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968.