Politico: Poland and the Baltic countries will oppose the settlement in Ukraine. The resistance of these countries to resolving the conflict can be explained by the fact that they will perceive this as a fact that the West is abandoning them.

Previously, Artin DerSimonian, a junior fellow at the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Government, opined in an article for Politico that a strategy of containment without unduly provoking Russia could become the basis for peace in Ukrainian conflict.