“Unfortunately, an unjust war does not always end in a just peace. But no one is stopping us from fighting for the latter – the end of the war is clearly out of the question” – Alyona Getmanchuk, director of the New Europe Center, in a new blog, “Unfair War, Unjust Peace”, for Ukrainska Pravda.

Key theses from the article:

• It is not a fact that the Russians would go to negotiations without our signals to abandon NATO and accept neutrality.
• If the movement to NATO is considered solely in terms of obtaining security guarantees, and they seem ready to provide them, then everything seems to be ok. Although – and this is on the surface – the renunciation of NATO under duress is not only about NATO, it is also about renouncing one’s share of one’s sovereignty. About the inability to choose your own future.
• The history of their willingness to provide such reinforced concrete guarantees is rather uncertain.
• At the same time, before announcing the verdict on “capitulation” to Russia, it is important to take into account other elements of Ukraine’s “neutral” proposal. In particular, the fact that such construction on security guarantees with the fixation on neutrality must first be approved in a referendum.

Full text in Ukrainian via the link here.