According to Lieutenant Colonel Simo Pesu, there will be no peace until the Russian armed forces somehow collapse on the front.
President Sauli Niinistö said today in his speech at the Ambassadors’ Day that the international community is beginning to have a broad consensus on what kind of principles Ukraine’s long-lasting peace could be built on. He referred, among other things, to the meeting of 40 countries held in Jeddah.
The experts who visited A-studio on Tuesday considered, among other things, what the conditions for building peace would be. Lieutenant colonel Simo Pesu The National Defense University pointed out what should happen in order for Ukraine to win back its territories.
– It requires that the Russian armed forces collapse in some way on the front in southern Ukraine.
Pesu said that the collapse cannot be seen from the outside, where it happens.
– Today’s events, such as the seizure of one village, show that another step forward was made. But it does not tell how Russia is able to occupy the following lines and how it is able to maintain and maintain its troops, which is the essential question.
According to Pesu, a military collapse does not necessarily lead to anything on the political level in the country in question.
– It means that the front line will move to that point and the fighting will continue there, Pesu stated.
Ukraine must become an engine of peace
Supplier Petri Raivio asked the assistant professor of the University of Helsinki Katri from Pynnöniemi, how seriously we are building peace in Ukraine. Pynnöniemi reminded that the background of the peace efforts is the president of Ukraine to Volodymyr Zelensky initiative of the ten-point peace plan.
– What is needed is a just peace, the removal of Russian troops and a very broad vision of what peace requires. Starting with nuclear safety, energy and food safety issues.
– In my opinion, it is essential that Ukraine positions itself as an engine, as an actor, which has been contrary to Russia’s discourse all along. Russia is trying to show that Ukraine is just a vassal, a dysfunctional platform on which to wage war, Pynnöniemi said.
Watch the entire A-studio broadcast here.