Military and strategic expert Major General Fayez al-Duwairi expressed his belief that the coming days will witness a reciprocal military escalation between Russia and Ukraine, because the Russians will defend the lands they declared to belong to the Russian Federation, and in return the Ukrainians will not agree to have their lands taken from them.

The Russian President had signed documents formally annexing 4 Ukrainian regions (Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson) to the Russian Federation.

Putin said that those regions that have held referendums on joining Russia have become part of their territory.

A move rejected by Ukraine, the United Nations, Western countries and the United States, which approved new sanctions against Moscow.

Speaking to an episode of "Beyond the News" program, Al-Duwairi ruled out Russia's rush to use nuclear weapons in its defense of the Ukrainian regions, which it says have become affiliated with the Russian Federation, because it has many papers that may achieve its goals. that you are seeking in Ukraine.

He explained that Putin may re-read the scene, and unify and integrate naval, air and missile capabilities to achieve the goals, which he says have become more clear.

The military and strategic expert noted that the Russian president will see that there are occupied Russian lands, and that the talk is no longer about a special military operation, but rather a declaration of war and general mobilization, not partial.

Al-Duwairi also expected that Western countries, especially the United States, Britain and the Europeans, would continue their support for Ukraine, with immediate assistance to meet the requirements of the battle and medium-term aid such as HIMARS missiles and air defense systems.

Russia dragged into the quagmire of Ukraine

For his part, UN expert Dr. Abdul Hamid Siam suggested that the Russian President's decision to annex 4 Ukrainian provinces would lead to two possibilities: either the beginning of the peace process or entering into a dangerous escalation phase if NATO accepts Ukraine's membership.

Putin may declare his victory, stop the fighting on one side, and wait for a response from the other side. Perhaps there will be a return to negotiations with the Ukrainian side, if the West intends not to escalate Russia's war on Ukraine.

According to the spokesman, the Russian president, after finding himself involved, is trying to rearrange the Russian forces and return them to the border region with a Russian majority.

However, the Russian army, after officially annexing 4 Ukrainian regions to the Russian Federation, will continue its military operations in order to defend these regions, according to Siam, who indicated that Kyiv’s request to join NATO would constitute an embarrassment to the alliance, and likely that NATO would hesitate to take a decision in this regard. .

Regarding the options of Kyiv and Western countries regarding this new reality, the expert in United Nations affairs saw that the West’s goal is to drag Russia into a long-term war of attrition that it believes it is unable to bear, by besieging it politically and economically and submitting it to the International Criminal Court. Arming the Ukrainian forces to make Kyiv a quagmire for the Russian forces, as happened with them previously in Afghanistan, and will take advantage of the state of restlessness that has begun to appear inside Russia.

On the other hand, the guest of the “Beyond the News” program underestimated the importance of the responses condemning Russia’s annexation of Ukrainian lands, and said that Moscow annexed the Crimea in 2014 and the world accepted that despite not recognizing that annexation, and there are similar cases that occurred and the international community dealt with them in the same way .