War in Ukraine: 'The key issue is to deter Russia from attacking again'
- Posted on February 23, 2026
- By Le Monde
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War in Ukraine: 'The key issue is to deter Russia from attacking again'

OP-ED. From 2014 to 2022, eight years of armed conflict in the Donbas region marked the first act of Russia's war of aggression; the full-scale invasion was the second. If Vladimir Putin is not stopped, a third act is inevitable, warns political scientist Anna Colin Lebedev for Le Monde.