09:56     05 March 2022    

According to official information from the Ministry of Defense, Russia is conducting a special operation in Ukraine.

According to official information from the Ministry of Defense, Russia is conducting a special operation in Ukraine. According to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, "the main goal of the military operation in Ukraine is to protect Russia from the threat from Western countries that are trying to use the Ukrainian people to fight Moscow." In Ukraine, they do not think so. The official bodies of this country believe that this is not a special operation, but a war that Russia is waging with Ukraine in order to capture the entire territory of Ukraine. The main goal of the Russian special operation, according to Ukraine, is the overthrow of the regime of Vladimir Zelensky. Baku Tribune addressed questions to Joseph Nye, a professor at Harvard University and author of Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump (Oxford University Press, 2020). - Recently, many have expressed the opinion that the Russian-Georgian war of 2008 and the current Russian-Ukrainian war were a manifestation of the revival of Russia as an empire. What is your opinion? - I think Putin desires to recreate the Russian Empire, either formally or informally. - What could be the consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian war for other post-Soviet states? - States that are not under a NATO guarantee should be very worried: those under Article 4 a little worried.