(International observation) The situation in eastern Ukraine is resurging. Will the crisis repeat itself 7 years ago?

  China News Service, Nur-Sultan, April 10th. Title: The situation in eastern Ukraine is resurging. Will the crisis repeat itself 7 years ago?

  China News Agency reporter Zhang Shuo

  Seven years after the outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis, the situation in eastern Ukraine is still turbulent.

U.S., Russia and U.S. armed forces gather in Donbass

  Since the Udonian situation became tense again in February this year, low-intensity armed conflicts in the region have never stopped. The OSCE, which is responsible for monitoring the ceasefire, has recorded dozens of violations of the Minsk ceasefire agreement every day.

  On the 8th of this month, Uzbek President Zelensky said during his visit to the Donbass region in eastern Uzbekistan that since this year, the number of soldiers killed by conflicts in the region has reached 25.

Zelensky said, "I am convinced that the situation in the region is deteriorating."

  In addition to the Uzbek government forces and the civilian armed forces in the east, NATO and Russia, led by the United States, have continued to send additional troops to the region.

According to the latest reports from Russian media, hundreds of thousands of troops and a large number of heavy weapons and equipment have been assembled in the Donbass confrontation area.

Ukraine accelerates its "contract"

  How to solve the current crisis in eastern Ukraine?

Zelensky's answer is-join NATO as soon as possible.

  In fact, Ukraine has been committed to joining NATO for many years.

However, this move by the Uzbek side was more interpreted by the outside world as "arranging a military stage to sing political drama."

  This time the regional situation has heated up, giving the country a breakthrough to join NATO.

After meeting with NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg on the 6th, Zelensky called on NATO member states to begin the process of absorbing Ukraine's "accession" as soon as possible.

  Prior to this, many politicians in Uzbekistan also actively expressed their favor to NATO. The commander-in-chief of Uzbekistan's armed forces, Holmchak, directly referred to Ukraine as the "European Shield", saying that joining NATO was a "strong alliance" between the two sides.

  However, Ukraine's desire to join NATO cannot be solved immediately by the Donbass issue.

An article in the British "Guardian" pointed out that Ukraine must first "focus on domestic reforms" and "develop its defense capabilities in accordance with NATO standards" before it may be absorbed by NATO.

Korotchenko, editor-in-chief of the Russian "National Defense" magazine, previously stated that because the compatibility of Uzbekistan's armaments is completely incompatible with NATO standards, "it will be impossible for Ukraine to join NATO in the next 20 years."

All parties show their "trump cards"

  Twenty years are too long, and the current situation in Udon is more concerned by the international community.

  Regarding whether the situation in the Donbass region will further escalate, the Russian side stated that the Donbass conflict is an internal conflict in Ukraine and Russia is not a party to the conflict.

Although Russia still maintains a restrained attitude towards Ukraine, it has also clearly revealed Moscow’s “hole card” on the Ukrainian issue—that is, it does not rule out copying the “Crimean model” under desperate bets and directly controlling Donbass. area.

  In addition, although the United States and NATO intend to provide support to the Ukrainian government forces, they have no intention of being directly involved in the conflict.

Another analysis pointed out that Ukraine is far from the United States, but is the gateway to the European Union.

In addition to geopolitical factors, the EU's consideration of Ukraine also has deep concerns about its own security.

  In view of the current situation of all parties, many international experts have judged that the possibility of a large-scale conflict in the region is unlikely to occur again, but the occurrence of "unexpected situations" must be prevented.

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