2 Years After Invasion, US Hopes to Strengthen Ukraine for ‘Negotiation’ With Russia

Published on February 24, 2024

WASHINGTON—Two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration is reconsidering the likelihood that the war will end in a negotiated settlement. Ukrainian leadership claims that it seeks the total recovery of its occupied territories in the east. Russia claims that it seeks the total demilitarization of Ukraine and the creation of a neutral state to buffer Russia from NATO. Neither side is close to achieving those objectives, however; nor are either likely to become so, according to several experts. For their part, U.S. officials are optimistic that the war has bled Russia badly enough that a negotiated settlement may yet preserve Ukraine’s democratic government and sovereignty....

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