Tactic of leaving Russia undefeated and ready for future partnership is toxic

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielus Landsbergis stated.

He believes that tactic of leaving Russia until the future partnership is toxic.

"It leads to calls to end the war by negotiation instead of ending it with a Ukrainian victory. Some even suggest Ukrainian territorial concessions to the invaders as a gift. That isn’t how the rules-based international order works," he emphasized.

According to Landsbergis, Russia should not be invited to "peace" talks as a reward for "brutally invading, occupying and murdering its neighbours again and again."

In his opinion, thesis that current security architecture should be preserved as "the best we have" is also wrong.

"International organisations completely failed to prevent conflict of a magnitude unseen in Europe since the Second World War. At the very least there must be change within those organizations. But we should not rule out the possibility of some organisations disappearing and new ones forming," Lithuanian minister said.

Therefore, Ukraine's allies should provide it with all weapons and assistance they can.

"Otherwise Russia will continue trying to reinvent the continent according to its own imperialist world vision. It is in Europe's interest to fight off and defeat the invader. After this defeat a new system needs to be created out of the lessons learnt from previous mistakes," minister wrote.

• On December 4, former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin expressed the opinion that the West is afraid of Russian President Vladimir Putin, but they are more afraid of Russia, which will uncontrollably reboot into unknown reality.