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Why has Russia invaded Ukraine and what does Putin want?

When Vladimir Putin shattered the peace in Europe by unleashing a war on the democracy of forty four million folks, his justification was that fashionable, Western-leaning Ukrayina was a relentless threat and Russia couldn't feel "safe, develop and exist".  But once weeks of bombardment, thousands of deaths, and also the displacement of ten million folks within Ukrayina and on the far side, the question remains: what's his war aim, and is there the simplest way out? What will he want? The Russian leader's initial aim was to overrun Ukrayina and depose its government, ending permanently its want to affix the Western defensive alliance international organization. He told the Russian folks his goal was to "demilitarise and de-Nazify Ukraine", to safeguard folks subjected to what he referred to as eight years of bullying and putting to death by Ukraine's government. "It isn't our decide to occupy the Ukrainian territory. we tend to don't sha