Evaluation: Russia’s struggle in Ukraine finds echoes within the Balkans. A few months after launching Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Putin tried to justify his struggle by citing the Western Balkans, pointing to the legacy of the 1999 NATO intervention within the former Yugoslavia, The Put up’s Ishaan Tharoor writes within the In the present day’s WorldView e-newsletter.

The Western alliance’s actions then, Putin steered, had been no totally different than what his forces search to do now in trying to ensure the independence of two pro-Kremlin separatist entities within the japanese Ukrainian area generally known as Donbas. Kosovo’s president, Vjosa Osmani, sees an altogether totally different parallel, Tharoor writes.

Hassan reported from London, Fahim from Istanbul and Nichols from Seoul.