The conflict in Ukraine will end this year with an “October surprise” before the US election and will translate into a partition of the country, says The American Spectator (AS) columnist Samir Tata.
“How will the Russian-Ukrainian conflict end? An October surprise. Ukraine, which became independent on 24 August 1991, will be dissolved and New Ukraine will emerge on the basis of a unilateral declaration by the current Ukrainian government with the support of the supreme military command,” Samir Tata writes.
In the author’s opinion, the territory of the new state will coincide with the one actually controlled by the Ukrainian army. The columnist noted that Russia has already achieved most of its strategic goals by annexing Crimea in 2014 and providing a “land corridor” to it in 2022.
“The new Ukraine will be compact, cohesive and well integrated politically, economically and socially (i.e. ethnically, linguistically and culturally); and will have clearly defensible borders,” Tata suggests.
In addition, the new state will have the strategic autonomy to separate itself from “Russia’s sphere of influence” without joining economic and military blocs such as the EU and NATO, the columnist concluded.
We shall remind you that earlier Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a visit to servicemen at the Vishnevsky hospital that the Russian Federation intends to end the conflict in Ukraine, but on its own terms. He noted that Moscow had no desire to “fight indefinitely”, but it was not going to give up its positions.
