The deployment of enormous forces in eastern Europe has disordered world politics, but the circumstances are applicably so. In such a war-like situation, how can Kiev, Ukraine’s capital, and the coastal town of Odesa remain calm and enjoyable? Britain would be reportedly willing to deploy more troops to eastern Europe if Russia were to invade.
“We would look to contribute to any new NATO deployments,” said UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Further, the US said it would put 8,500 troops on high alert to deploy to Europe if necessary, while France said it was willing to send forces to Romania.
The troubled areas affected by the war with Russia are located very far from Kiev. In fact, it lies in the southeast region of the country. Without a doubt, it can be asked: on what basis is the media reporting Ukraine’s safety if there prevails a tense turmoil? What remains relatively reasonable is that Boris Johnson still hopes to avoid any large-scale war.
If a war-like situation takes place, Indians will have to defy by either taking the side of Russia or NATO; because one happens to be a traditional patron while another remains an economic supporter.
It is always stressed that language binds the countries together and also brings affinity, but we do not see such sort of scene in Ukraine, a large East European country. Russian is widely spoken there but the love seems to have been lost between both countries. Ukraine shares its borders with both the European Union and Russia, and as a former Soviet republic, it has placidly maintained profound social and cultural ties with Putin-ruled Russia.
Enmity seems to linger from the days when Ukraine’s people displaced the pro-Russian President in early 2014. It was at that time Russia got a chance to attach Ukraine’s southern Crimean based on peninsula and back separatists who captured large swathes of eastern Ukraine. Rebels have fought the Ukrainian military ever since in a pitched conflict that has claimed more than 14,000 lives, BBC reports.