Regarding the future of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the dimensions of the war that has been going on there for more than a year and a half, Rewaq Baghdad Center for Public Policy hosted the Russian ambassador to Iraq, Mr. Elbrus Kutrashev.

Through the dialogue symposium held by the Center and attended by a group of political, parliamentary, diplomatic and academic figures and elites, Mr. Kutrashev touched on the reasons that prompted Russia to choose a military confrontation, as he pointed out that the actual beginning of tension and escalation between the two sides was when Ukraine launched an attack on the protesters in 2014, At that time, Russia tried not to be drawn into escalation, adding that it was wrong to call it the Russian-Ukrainian war, which is a wrong term that the Western and Ukrainian media deliberately use, while the truth is that it is an armed conflict and a special operation with specific goals, and the Russian side did not declare a state of war according to what is generally accepted. He explained that there is no problem in the real sense between Russia and Ukraine, but rather there is a problem related to Russia’s national security and Ukrainian national security, the repercussions of which began from the Ukrainian interior, accusing the West and the United States of America of working to nourish and sustain it in a way that achieves Western and American purposes and interests, as he indicated the existence of a role A major American fuels this conflict and at the same time prevents any rapprochement or internal or regional settlement efforts that lead to the end of the crisis.