News Snapshot:
On 24 February this year, Russia crossed the Rubicon in the Ukraine crisis and intervened directly in what had until then been a festering but limited conflict since 2014. The Ukraine war is now poised to enter a third phase. The opening phase of the Russian intervention was aimed at coercive diplomacy with the introduction of a credible force presence inside Ukraine. As we now know from Western sources, the Ukrainian regime had initially been receptive to a negotiated settlement in March, broadly on the terms of Ukraine committing itself to permanent geopolitical neutrality and constitutional safeguards for the millions...
