Ukraine announces a ceasefire in their civil war.

File photo from the Ukraine conflict. Reuters. 

Ukraine has announced a ceasefire between the government and the rebels. Reuters. Ukraine claims that the rebels have already violated the agreement but they haven't responded yet. The ceasefire is backed by both by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Zelenskiy campaigned on ending the war which has raged since 2014 and has resulted in 13,000 deaths. Major combat between the two sides ended in 2015 but violence has continued in the past five years. 

My Comment:

Just a quick post about a topic that has gone unnoticed for a long time. Though the war in Ukraine has continued, most people have ignored the conflict for years now. The only time I have heard the media focus on it is when they tried to change the Joe Biden scandal into a Donald Trump one. 

However the war has continued and a lot of people have died. Though the violence isn't anywhere near as bad as it was it used to be it still exists. The violence has continued even through other cease fires. 

Will this cease fire hold? Well the Ukrainians already say that it hasn't with the rebels opening fire. However, I don't know how much I trust that, the Ukrainians aren't always truthful either. And I do have to note that there have been a lot of these cease fires in the past. They have always fallen apart in the end and this might end the same way. 

But I do think there is a lot of motivation to end the war. Neither side is anywhere near strong enough to defeat the other and this constant state of skirmish is not good for either of them. Ending the war would probably be a major embarrassment for both sides but at least it would end the death. 

I personally think that the western media's narrative on Ukraine was wrong from the start. Ukraine's former government put a bunch of racist anti-Russian laws and then the Russian speaking Ukrainians rebelled. What they did makes sense and though their behavior has been bad and Russia has been helping them, they are hardly the villains the Western media has made them out to. And the Ukrainians have used actual Nazis, the Azov Battalion, to fight them. Neither side has a monopoly on morality here. 

That being said I do hope that this war finally ends. There is no real point in keeping the fighting going and all it will accomplish is making people die. The war needs to end and I hope that this cease fire holds long enough to finally end this war.