"The Kremlin has realized the defeat": in ISW ​​named the goals that the Russian Federation failed after the NATO summit

According to analysts, Moscow tried to prevent the Alliance to expand to the East, which became one of the reasons for a full -scale invasion of Ukraine. Now the Western troops on the borders from the Russian Federation will be even more. The NATO Summit, which took place the day before in Lithuanian Vilnius, demonstrated a complete failure of the goals of the Russian Federation, for which they began the war. This is stated in the report of the American Institute of War Study of July 12.

According to analysts, Russian aggression on the neighboring country rejected the goals for which the Kremlin and started this struggle. NATO Summit was able to signal President Vladimir Putin and the entire political elite that the Allies would not allow Kiev's defeat. "The goal of preventing NATO's expansion and, moreover, to collapse the previous rounds of the Alliance's expansion and push NATO from the borders of Russia was one of the Kremlin's stated requirements before invasion of Ukraine.

The Kremlin constantly repeated this purpose throughout the war. Lack of general resonance in the Russian information space The events at the NATO summit, as well as the introduction of Finland to NATO are most likely to indicate that the Kremlin has realized these defeats and does not want to mention them, "the statement said. ISW also mentioned Turkey's decision to send a protocol to enter another country to the Alliance - Sweden.