Social Humour: Russia’s decision to ease tensions with Ukraine sparks memefest

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Russia made two overtures to ease

tensions around Ukraine

- reporting a pullback of troops near its neighbour and welcoming talks with the West. But the United States and its allies said they needed evidence of the troop movements and that the threat of a

Russian invasion

still loomed.



Russia’s tenor seems to have changed this week. President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia does not want war and would rely on negotiations in its efforts to eliminate any chance that

Ukraine

could one day join Nato – his key demand in the crisis. At the same time, he did not commit to a full pullback, saying Russia's next moves in the standoff will depend on how the situation evolves.



Social media, anticipating a war for long, bursted into memes following Russia’s apparent change of plans.







Sequence of events that may have altered Russia’s plans






This was Putin’s plan all along



The big table diplomacy worked after all