Vladimir Putin does not want, nor can he conceive, of Ukraine as part of the European world order. Proof of this has not only been his continual rhetorical doubting of Ukraine’s right to nation status, but his illegal and criminally aggressive war whose strategic end is Ukraine’s destruction, for it to cease to exist as a functioning nation and culture.
There can be no doubt that Putin has employed genocidal actions to reach this strategic end. For this, he, and the entire nation of Russia must…