The Kremlin’s “obsession” with Ukraine, commentator Liliya Shevtsova writes, was once again very much on display in the wake of the Verkhovna Rada elections. That obsession not only prevents Moscow from understanding what is in fact taking place in Ukraine and the West, but is crippling Russia by focusing on the past, not the future, and on others, rather than itself.
Those problems have been very much on public view, the Russian political commentator says, as many close to the Kremlin have argued the parliamentary vote in Ukraine was a victory for Moscow, given that it shows Europe is tired of Ukraine and that Ukrainians are tired of war and now have a government that wants some kind of a settlement.