The pressure on the West to intervene in Ukraine will increase if Russia accelerates its attacks, says Matti Pesu, a senior researcher at the Foreign Policy Institute.
There is a clear view in the West that Ukraine will be assisted with defense materials and arms supplies. Military intervention is not possible, says a senior researcher at the Foreign Policy Institute Matti Pesu.
– If the war escalates even more and more civilian casualties, heavier bombings are seen, it will create more pressure to act. Individual NATO countries can help Ukraine if they wish.
Pesu, who visited A-studio on Wednesday, recalls that Russia is a nuclear-weapon state.
– NATO is reluctant to push the situation to the point where it would escalate into a nuclear war. Russia has been referring to nuclear weapons since the beginning of the war.
According to the wash, Russia believes that the nuclear deterrent will give it freedom of action in Ukraine. At the same time, the United States and France have made references to their nuclear capabilities on behalf of NATO.
NATO has no legal right to stop Russian forces without a UN mandate, says professor of international law Outi Korhonen From the University of Turku.
– The international security system is based on the fact that only the UN has the right to intervene forcefully in the affairs of another state. The UN Security Council will not be able to deal with this now under Russia’s presidency, but there are other institutions, such as the General Assembly.
Korhonen points out that NATO is a defense alliance of its own member states and a similar provision applies to the EU.
– If Member States have to be defended, there should also be agreement with the UN.
Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs Jussi Halla-aho (ps.) commented on Tuesday that Western military intervention in Ukraine cannot be ruled out.
Halla-aho said she believes Western military intervention to stop Russia will soon be inevitable, so it would be better to do it sooner rather than later.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs criticized its chairman for his remarks on Thursday.
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