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Russia is the test of Europe’s strategic autonomy

To end the Ukraine war, the region must collectively decide on finding a place for the Eurasian country

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    • Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses to acknowledge he can fail in Ukraine, but a debate has begun among the country's elite that is at once promising and worrying.
    • Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses to acknowledge he can fail in Ukraine, but a debate has begun among the country's elite that is at once promising and worrying. PHOTO: REUTERS

    Marc Champion

    Published Tue, Jun 16, 2026 · 07:15 AM

    ON JUN 11, ambassadors from the so-called E3 – France, Germany and the UK – made a rare visit to Moscow to discuss ending its invasion of Ukraine.

    Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, did not deign to receive them. Instead, his deputy lectured them with “an objective assessment of the destructive policies of the West”. 

    Objectively, Russia is doing the destroying.

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