Arkanghelsk wrote:flamming_python wrote:ludovicense wrote:Russia doesn't want the Syrian scenario or a new Grosny. It would be politically prohibitive. Ukraine is a huge country with equally large conventional forces.... it wouldn't be overnight that this operation would be completed... if Russian intelligence or anyone else thought that, they were wrong....
I have a feeling both sides are just trying to increase their negotiating positions
What I see the ultimate solution as:
Military neutrality
Possibly an agreement with both the EU and EEU on trade preferences
DNR/LNR entering the Ukraine as republics with autonomy and own police forces
Mostly demilitarized Ukraine, albeit still with a standing army, which will have some battalions based on the DNR/LNR forces as well integrated in
Nazis still present but keep their head down more
Creation of the Trans-Carpathian republic out of the current Trans-Carpathian region, with Hungarian and Rusyn as extra official languages there, and some autonomy (not as much as DNR/LNR)
Military access rights for Russia to Pridnestrovie/Moldova
Russian compensation for all destroyed infrastructure, housing in the Ukraine and families of dead soldiers, civilians
Russian reconstruction of destroyed military-industrial enterprises, which can then fulfill orders for the Russian military as well
Amnesty for all political and military prisoners since 2014. Russia and the DNR/LNR releasing anyone they hold as well.
If all goes well then an eventual referendum on the Crimean republic rejoining the Ukraine (minus Sevastopol), provided that Russia has a scope-less limit on military infrastructure there and for free, to ensure its own security interests
it's like reading a Dozhd or Meduza article
Lmfao
No really, just an acknowledgement that both sides have to sit down and agree on something mutually beneficial. Such a Ukrainian state as I described will completely fit in with Russian interests.