Boris Johnson and the DC neocons may have queered that deal by insisting on "no negotiations".
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that the Crimea land bridge and its railroads are open for business.
“Conditions have been created for the resumption of full-fledged traffic between Russia, Donbass, Ukraine, and Crimea on six railway sections,” Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in a statement. “Automobile communication has been opened from the territory of Russia along the mainland to Crimea.”
And Kherson.
Bad news for Nikolaev and Odessa, where the Russians have thrown back a Ukrainian counteroffensive with heavy losses for the Orkrainians.
My goodness, that Arestovych was downright clairvoyant...:-)
Arnaud Bertrand
@RnaudBertrand
This is Ukrainian presidential
advisor Oleksiy Arestovych in
2015.
He says that if Ukraine continues
down the path of joining NATO “it
will prompt Russia to launch a
large scale military operation [...]
before we join NATO”, “with a
probability of 99.9%”, likely “in
2021-2022”.