1in.am One day after the meeting with Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Omsk, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, stated in a speech before representatives of the Navy that Ukraine will one day lose the western territories "gifted" by Stalin after World War II. He even mentioned the countries that could claim those territories: Poland, Hungary, and Romania.
These countries are members of NATO, an alliance that Russia recognizes as an enemy and accuses of being "intent on inflicting strategic defeat." In this context, the actual announcement of Poland, Hungary, and Romania's territorial "claims" against Ukraine seems not only illogical but also contrary to Russia's geopolitical interests.
But in a deeper sense, Putin is pursuing the fragmentation of Europe's "anti-Russian alliance" and is effectively offering Poland, Hungary, and Romania to "share Ukraine." One can only imagine the crisis NATO would face if Poland, Hungary, and Romania brought the "demand for the return of seized territories" to the agenda.
With this statement, the President of Russia has revealed the failure of the meeting with his Kazakh counterpart in Omsk. It is clear that during the private conversation, he was unable to convince Tokayev that "the initiative on the battlefield is entirely in Russia's hands, and the fate of the Kyiv regime is imminent."
The addressees of the publicization of the "territorial just claims" of Poland, Hungary, and Romania regarding Ukraine are likely not only Warsaw, Budapest, and Bucharest but also primarily Brussels, London, Paris, and Berlin. Essentially, this is a very transparent hint that Russia "can provoke a pan-European war."
The projects of the "Union State" with Belarus and the "Eurasian common home" in cooperation with Kazakhstan do not overcome the trials of the Russian-Ukrainian war; Minsk and Astana have no motivation to share the burden of historical responsibility. In contrast, Vladimir Putin seems to be intent on igniting "claims" in Eastern Europe. Such temptation was also present for Stalin in 1939.
* This text was automatically translated by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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