It might disappoint Europeans that governments and publics in places such as India and Turkiye tend to view Russia’s aggression through the prism of their national interest rather than universal principles. In fact, the war has accelerated actions which were ‘unthinkable’ before the war says Kataryna Wolczuk, associate fellow in the Chatham House Russia and Eurasia programme, such as the fast-tracking of Ukraine’s EU candidate status within three months.

Forced to crack down on such activities of oligarchs and their associates, UK and other states have realised they cannot keep letting this cash flow in while trying to leverage sanctions and take the moral high ground. Moreover, around three-quarters in each of these two countries and in India believe that Russia is either stronger, or at least equally strong, compared to how they say they perceived it before the war. The future is hard to predict but, whatever the next few months may bring, it is clear we are living in a true historic moment where we will see the reshaping of the Eurasian continent and the process of ending the Russian imperial ambition, and that is a legacy worth fighting for,’ she says.

Russian leaders achieved accession to the Council of Europe (1996), the G7 (1997), and the World Trade Organization (2012).

To be honest, I in some way generally opt out of the question by saying things like I did in the book, which is that my goal is not to exonerate Putin. So Saddam was perplexed, so he asked the embassy of the United States about an action within the territory, the answer was: we do not interfere .

And even if it’s not a deliberate attempt, like to fire bomb the German cities, or to fire bomb the Japanese cities, to say nothing of the atomic bomb, there’s a lot of innocent casualties involved. With China currently producing around 70 per cent of all the world’s solar panels, some nations have already started to restructure their industries to be more self-reliant in renewables production.