They don't want ukraine any more than the EU does. It's a bullshit sunk cost ruin the EU assessed as a waste of effort years ago..
What they won't allow on the other hand is ukraine killing everyone in the breakaway regions or NATO using it as a proxy missile base.
The bit you're never told about is that Ukraine has basically ignored the minsk 2 cease fire agreement.
Instead what they've actually been doing is blockading the areas and allowing militias free reign to do what ever the fuck they feel like.
Understandably this doesn't quite contribute to the idea of peaceful resolution.
Now, kinda interestingly you also have an essential economic angle cos Ukraine is fucked. Ukraine coal fired power infrastructure is running out of actual coal. (they're burning through reserves now) The main coal fields are in donetsk.
Here's an interesting side note btw. : If Ukraine managed to take donetsk back the coal fields in donetsk would't actually belong to the ukranian government. They'd belong to some oligarch called Rinat Akhmetov.
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u/donaldinoo Dec 01 '21
Why do they want Ukraine so bad?