The Russian-Ukrainian war is becoming increasingly difficult to figure out the outcome. First, let's take a look at the latest news from the February 28 negotiations:
On February 28, 2022, Gomel, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine held talks in Belarus, and the talks between the two sides lasted about 5 hours, discussing all the agenda in detail.
But so far, the results given have not been agreed, and it seems that the first round of negotiations is basically a détente between each other. Let's look at some of the latest moves in Europe, the United States and Ukraine:
The West has decided to exclude some Russian banks from the Global Association for Interbank Financial Communications (SWIFT) system, and some observers believe that sanctions are likely to escalate further, and even NATO will quickly allow Ukraine to join. Some experts said that these results will eventually be paid by the American people.
Ukraine's representative to the European Union, Vsevolod Chentsov, said the EU had officially started the process of considering Ukrainian naturalization applications.
Ukrainian President Zelenskiy has called for a global ban on Russian rockets, planes, helicopters and ships, with its airspace completely closed and barred from entering any ports, canals and airports to prevent Russia from obtaining funds through energy exports.
The United States has also been idle and has begun to ban dollar trading in Russia, so what the future holds, in fact, is still more obvious:
Senior U.S. government officials said the U.S. took steps to ban the Russian central bank from conducting any dollar transactions and blocked the Russian Direct Investment Fund across the board to prevent Russia from mitigating the impact of sanctions through an "emergency fund" or "emergency savings account."
Judging from the current overall situation, the contest that may not be necessarily a simple Contest between Russia and Ukraine, but a contest between Russia and the entire NATO region.