{"id":1284310,"date":"2025-08-23T21:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T18:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/is-peace-with-russia-possible\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T07:29:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:29:29","slug":"is-peace-with-russia-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/is-peace-with-russia-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Ukraine Achieve Peace with Russia?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the central issue around which Ukraine\u2019s strategy for ending the war must be built. If Putin is as obsessed with the \u201cUkrainian question\u201d as Hitler was with the Jewish question, then any negotiations in any format can only ever be tactical.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For example, to buy time in the hope that the Kremlin ghoul will die soon, creating a window of opportunity for a long-lasting settlement of our relations with Muscovy, provided that their new tsar and the Russian elites recognize Ukraine\u2019s fundamental right to exist as a separate nation. That is, the right not to be Russians and to determine their own destiny. They must also ensure that Ukraine, despite all the wrongs inflicted upon it, does not become an instrument of Russia\u2019s destruction in the hands of the insidious West.<\/p>\n

There is a second option that some Ukrainian intellectuals dream about: the collapse of Russian statehood and the disintegration of Russia into several dozen independent states\u2014a sort of remake of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian \u201cpatchwork\u201d empire. However, this is a dangerous repeat of the Russian Revolution, in which the empire was reassembled by the Bolsheviks, turning it into a state where terror became the primary method of governance. In the 20th century, such an experiment cost Ukraine tens of millions of lives. But even in the event of Russia\u2019s ultimate collapse, where are the guarantees that the newly emerged states would be friendly to Ukraine and choose the path of civilized, cooperative neighborliness? The collapse of Iraqi statehood brought little good news to its neighbors\u2026<\/p>\n\t\t