Next Tuesday, February 24, the war in Ukraine will turn four years old. Although the president of the United States, assured that he would end the armed conflict in just 24 hours, the reality is that after more than a year in the White House, the North American president has been unable to end the fight.
Although we have been in diplomatic negotiations between the US and Russia for months and even last August there was a face-to-face meeting between Trump and Putin, the reality is that The end of the Ukrainian war, at least today, does not seem close.
Taking this situation into account, there are war analysts who suggest that Ukraine’s response to end the armed conflict It could be in a European territory: Kosovo.
In an article in the magazine the US international affairs analyst and former negotiator in the Balkans, Edward P. Josephhas proposed a solution to the war in Ukraine based on the Kosovo model contained in UN Security Council Resolution 1,244.
A key: postpone the legal question of sovereignty
The expert has highlighted that the main key of the relative peace that has been maintained in Kosovo since the signing of that resolution has been “postpone the legal question of sovereignty (i.e. who owns Kosovo).”
Joseph has expressed that “In the case of Ukraine, the agreement could involve an international peacekeeping force, led by the UN or the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which would replace the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of western Donbas that are part of Donetsk province, but are not under Russian occupation. “Russian troops would remain where they are currently.”
With this approach that, according to the international affairs analyst, could bring peace closer to Ukraine, “all questions of sovereignty would be put on hold until referendums throughout eastern Ukraine and Crimea finally determine sovereignty”. Only time will tell if this or another is finally the approach to be adopted so that the armed conflict in Ukraine finally ends.
