Nothing benefits as consensus among the NATO nations has still not reached and Ukraine has been facing the brunt of invasion. Putin approaches with who cares daunting mood and there is no sign of end to war thrust upon pro-western Zelenskyy.
The full- scale war looks more like beating him for being a NATO ally. Could it be said that the war had not happened if Ukraine desired not to go within ambit of NATO?
Ukraine would get entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation only after the consensus comes among all the member states of the military alliance.
Still questionable the membership will be possible only after all the 30 allies get readied to initiate their striking decisions by consensus.
What pro-western Volodymyr Zelenskyy seemed to have supposedly not lost in the long war remains his indomitable determination to fight.
How will he take back annexed regions from Russia? In spite of all the sanctions against Ukraine, nothing changed in the air aberrant attitude of the Russian President.
The huge devastation must be troubling him like a bad dream. However, it stands as a big reality before him.
Although European Union member states (27) have extended their support to Ukraine by terming annexation as thoroughly illegal yet Vladimir Putin shows no compunction in formal annexation of four Ukrainian regions viz., Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in a full-scale war of 220 days so far.
Even sanctions could not prevent Putin from taking such a drastic stride. Unfortunately, it reminds us of a similar act of annexing Crimea way back in the year 2014.