Current Affairs Ukraine

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USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
 
I wonder how this situation is going to affect our own Vitalii Mykolenko ? I know nothing about his private life but wonder if he has family/relatives living in Ukraine, if so he must be highly concerned about their welfare and football will not be his top priority right now.

Are there any Russian players in the league at the moment?
 
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
UK: Don’t invade any more countries.
Hitler: We won’t.

Look how that panned out.
 
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
USA: Don't attack Ukraine
Russia: we aren't going to attack Ukraine.
China: Hello Taiwan
 
Russia doesn't invade Ukraine - Ukraine possibly joins NATO in future and Russia then shares another border with a NATO nation.

Russia invades and annexes Ukraine - Russia shares another border with NATO nation Poland

Either choice is extremely costly to Russia. The ongoing economic cost of fortifying the flat present day 2300km Ukraine/Russia border if they were to join NATO would be massive, potentially bankrupting the country. Whereas an invasion and occupation would bring enormous political and economic costs.

The Russian interest lies somewhere between the two via diplomacy, which gives me hope that a solution will be found - such as an agreement for Ukraine to be barred from NATO alliance, and possible re-drawing of the border further west. Their other objective of having NATO forces pulled from the Baltics, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania will simply never happen though.
 
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