Kyiv Under Fire on War Anniversary. London Considers Deploying Non-Combat Units

The approaching fourth anniversary of the outbreak of full-scale war in Ukraine coincides with another wave of massive Russian attacks. On Saturday night into Sunday, Kyiv became the target of missile strikes and drone raids. The scale of the threat prompted the Polish Operational Command of the Armed Forces Branches to preemptively scramble fighter jets to secure the eastern border. Ukrainians, entering the fifth year of conflict, are grappling with extremely difficult winter conditions and ruined energy infrastructure. Public opinion polls and refugee accounts, including those from the Ukrainian community in Germany's Thuringia, indicate growing skepticism about the prospects for a swift and just peace. Legally and politically, the territorial shape of independent Ukraine was largely based on the 1994 agreements following the so-called Budapest Memorandum. Kyiv then relinquished the nuclear arsenal inherited from the USSR in exchange for political assurances of border inviolability from the great powers. However, these promises were not backed by hard, enforceable guarantees of allied defense, which significantly facilitated Russia's subsequent armed aggression in 2014 and then 2022. 4 lata — the open invasion by the armed forces of the Russian Federation continues The West is intensively searching for the optimal strategy for military and economic containment of the Kremlin. The boldest objective declarations are currently coming from the British side. Former head of government Boris Johnson strongly appealed in the media for the immediate dispatch of Western European personnel to sovereign Ukrainian territory. According to the London idea, the stationed forces would perform strictly training and logistical tasks in safe regions of the country, establishing an absolute deterrent signal for the opponent's decision-making. „non-combat forces should be stationed in peaceful regions to send a firm message to Russian president Vladimir Putin otherwise the Russian leader would keep going” — Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Simultaneously, the current Secretary of State for Defence John Healey publicly addressed the direct deployment of the army on the pages of "The Telegraph," burdening it, however, with a crucial chronological condition. Healey supported the desire to be the authority introducing a British peacekeeping mission, emphasizing that any potential deployment of British equipment and soldiers would concern a post-war period stabilizing an agreement, securing the definitive cessation of hostilities on the continent. In Western Europe, public opinion clearly and firmly remains ready to stand with the wrongs suffered by the victims of aggression. The streets of Paris gathered a dense crowd of protesters, pressing for the unconditional transfer of confiscated funds from Moscow's oligarchs to the attacked government as reparations.

Perspektywy mediów: Highlights the deep humanitarian drama of civilians, the difficult fate of women with children seeking safe haven, and the civic cooperation of the French nation. Leads aimlessly towards a geopolitical rearrangement of buffer zones, accentuates the brutal pragmatism of NATO actions and the dominance of capital over the welfare state.