The best news since Russia invaded Ukraine is that talks between the two nations opened in Istanbul last Tuesday.
The goal must be a full cease fire, an end to the fratricide.
Ukraine President, Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Ukraine will declare its neutrality and is prepared to negotiate on the status of the breakaway Donbas region in the far east of Ukraine.
I hope this means that Ukraine will not become a NATO partner right on the border of Russia.
In WWII, over 22,000,000 Soviet citizens died defending the USSR from the Nazi invaders.
It helps explain why so many Russians are protesting, thousands arrested, saying no to this atrocious Ukraine invasion.
Putin claims his aim is to de-Nazify Ukraine.
Yes, there are Nazis in Ukraine as there are here in the U.S.
But millions of Ukrainians died alongside their Russian sisters and brothers fighting the Nazi invaders during WWII.
President Biden said Vladimir Putin must go.
That is for the Russian people to decide.
The U.S. policy of regime change has been a disaster, igniting wars that cost millions of lives, destabilizing entire regions of the world.
Yet Biden was correct in his State of the Union Address to declare flatly there will be no U.S. troops sent into Ukraine, a danger of war with Russia that could trigger nuclear World War III.
We must speak out loud and clear for a cease fire, negotiations, Russian withdrawal, a neutral Ukraine and no NATO expansion.
Tim Wheeler
Sequim