Per-Kaare Holdal
Russia’s spring 2021 saber-rattling on the Ukrainian border helped guarantee that Ukraine would be high on the international agenda during June’s G7, NATO, and US-Russia summit meetings. Fears of a major military escalation also served as a reminder that this unresolved European conflict remains at the heart of international affairs.
Recently, Russian President Putin claimed that there is no Ukrainian nation of his own in a lengthy article published on the presidential administration's website. The Swedish Liberal Member of Parliament Maria Nilsson writes about the threats to free Ukraine in this travel letter from the capital Kyiv.